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Dairy cows stand in water holes to drink in the Suwannee basin in Florida. Concentrated dairy cow operations contribute high nitrate into the aquifer that has karst soil and nearby clear water springs. Waste from a total of 44,000 head of cattle helped ruin a thriving oyster industry in the town of Suwannee, downstream situated on the Gulf of Mexico.
- Copyright
- MELISSA FARLOW
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- 6856x10198 / 88.3MB
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aerial views, animals, aquifer, bathing and grooming (by animals), cattle, conservation disputes and issues, cows, dairy farmers and farming, destruction of wetlands and waterways, domestic animals, eating and drinking (by animals), groups of animals, mammals, pollution, suwannee (florida), suwannee river basin, water pollution
- Contained in galleries
- Okefenokee USA_National Geographic magazine_4/1992
