‘Justice League’ has arrived: Wait was long, and so is the film

Even before Superman rises from a watery grave, eyes aflame and chest bared, the resurrection metaphors pretty much write themselves in “Zack Snyder’s Justice League.” By “Zack Snyder’s Justice League,” of course, I don’t mean the directordisavowed mess that was released under his name four years ago, but rather the director-approved mess that will soon be whooshing, blasting and mostly meandering its way into an HBO Max queue near you.

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Glenn, the district’s water resources chief, during the governing board’s monthly meeting on Thursday. “We are poised to have a pretty phenomenal wading bird nesting year in the Everglades.”

As a nutrient-poor environment, the Everglades needs to get its delicate water balance right to sustain wading birds: a plentiful rainy season to produce abundant fish and then a steep drop in water levels at the start of the dry season, which is when nesting kicks off. By then, the fish move into drier, more concentrated pools and birds can successfully nest and feed their young.

The extraordinary wet season also freshened up coastal areas in Florida Bay, which has been hammered by seagrass die-offs and algae blooms that worsened with high salinity levels in the past few years.

Salinity is not a concern at the moment, Glenn said. At this time last year, salinity levels were so high that it looked like the bay was headed to hyper-salinity territory, when seagrass die-offs are likely to occur.

“This year we are seeing some of the freshest conditions we’ve had in a while,” he said. “We are not worried about a seagrass dieoff currently.”

And better water conditions are helping the recovery of seagrass beds in the bay. Large areas of turtle grass, the dominant species in Florida Bay, were devastated by a dieoff in 2015, and were again hammered by Hurricane Irma in 2017. That species is still sparse on the bay bottom, but shoal grass, which is considered a pioneer species, is quickly expanding and creating better conditions for overall seagrass recovery, Glenn said.

“Shoal grass is stabilizing the sediment, keeping the water clear and improving the conditions for other species to come in,” he said. “We will probably see recovery in the next five years,” he said.

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