The larval form of the journal began to take shape in 2003 as way to keep the multi-agency Big Cypress Watersheds Team better in touch with hydrologic numbers unfolding in the Big Cypress area, and how those numbers fit into the rest of the south Florida water picture.
In the past, Southwest Florida's Big Cypress corner had developed a reputation -- or cloaked aura, especially its wilder eastern half -- of lurking in the shadows of the larger south Florida waterscape.
That's what motivated Mike Savarese, science faculty at Florida Gulf Coast University, to partner with the Big Cypress Basin (SFWMD) in 2000 to build a watershed team that would build a bridge among the aquatic professionals spread across the watershed.
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