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a what we call an Everglades tree island in Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge and when you look out at this tree Island first of all tree islands are forested wetlands that are scattered around the river of grass the Sawgrass Marsh that we often think of with the Everglades but a biologically important component of the Everglades are these tree islands and the lime green vegetation that you can see sort of canopy over trees that is overall climbing fern also known as like gaudium it's an aggressive invader it quickly will climb over anything it can climb on and smother the plants and so what would normally be a wall of native forest vegetation is now a wall of lime green exotic fun we've got crews out here they're lined up they have machetes with backpacks that have herbicide the to reduce the amount of herbicide that we actually apply they first use the machete to cut away the canopy of the like gaudium or old world climbing fern and then we'll spray a small amount of herbicide aro