Word: airboat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...biologist because of the love for wildlife he nurtured out here," says J.R. Hinsley, a plant-nursery owner whose stilt house--a furnished, air-conditioned "hunt camp" he calls the Fontainebleau--sits above alligator nests deep in the Everglades, southwest of Boca Raton, accessible only by airboat. "People can call us swamp rats and rednecks all they want," says Hinsley's neighbor Don Kirk, 59, "but folks are supporting us because most of them live on top of asphalt today and we remind them of how Florida used to be--how they wish it was again...
...quiet spot where Gene Duncan goes to unwind. It sits at the junction of two canals, where a stand of willows and pond-apple trees provides a bit of shade. When Duncan, a water- quality expert working for the local Indian tribe, cuts the engine of his airboat, he can hear bullfrogs croak from the water lilies and the tails of - Florida garfish slap the water with a noise like popcorn popping. A pair of white ibis watch warily as alligators -- half a dozen of them -- drift toward the boat, lured by a man-made gulping sound that Duncan calls...
...Miccosukee Indians, who hunt frogs and give tourists boat rides in the Everglades, may insist that water-purity standards be raised, not lowered. But for the first time in five years, a solution is in sight that all parties could live with -- even the alligators circling Gene Duncan's airboat...