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All,

If you haven't experienced Viera Wetlands in Florida I highly recommend it on your next trip south. It serves as a shining example of how one county in Florida figured out that birders and nature photographers are not the enemy. Instead, they see us as a valuable source of tax revenue which every city and county needs in order to operate their water reclamation facilities. They have made Viera Wetlands free and open to the public and all they ask is that you please sign in so that they can keep track of how many visitors they receive. As a result, it has become a birding hotspot in the state and the envy of many other counties. Here's just a few of the links on this unique sewage treatment facility.

http://www.wildlifesouth.com/Locations/Florida/VieraWetlands.html

http://www.brevardcounty.us/NaturalResources/EnvironmentalResources/Wetlands

http://www.dep.state.fl.us/water/wastewater/dom/wetviera.htm

Bill Blackledge

Plattsburg (Smithville Lake), MO

On Thursday, November 14, 2013 2:02 PM, Edge Wade <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Just goes to show: Give a birder and inch and he'll take a scope view!

Bodacious lawabiding birding,

Edge Wade
Columbia, MO
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On Nov 14, 2013, at 1:20 PM, Allen Gathman wrote:

> My home village of Pocahontas has a set of three small sewage ponds that are definitely not open to the public -- but since they're right across the road from me, I sneak over from time to time. I don't actually know who to contact for permission, so I just try to be inconspicuous. Not something I'd recommend to anyone else, of course.
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> -Allen
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