点评:I have been going into the Rehder Pocosin for 16 years, mid-April to early June. They have been my favorite photo safaris...until last year. Something happened and I cannot find anyone in city parks and recreation with an explanation. The pitcher plants are stunted with almost no blooms. I estimate the number to be only a third of what was there in 2024. When I visited in mid-April 2026, it looked like someone had clear cut the entire bog down to a couple inches. Today I found about a dozen severely stunted fly traps. Normally their flowers would be blooming now, but there are only small unopened flowers...and the fly traps are almost too small to see.
Normally there would be dozens of purple orchids blooming. I found one today.
We have a local drought but the pocosin is bone dry, much worse than it should be even in a drought.
I have a wonderful collection of images from 2010 through 2024. The past two years' images are not even worth including. Sad.
翻译:十六年来,每年四月中旬到六月初,我都会去雷德尔沼泽地(Rehder Pocosin)拍照。那里一直是我最喜欢的摄影胜地……直到去年。不知何故,那里发生了一些变化,我在市公园和娱乐部门找不到任何人能解释原因。瓶子草长势矮小,几乎没有开花。我估计现在的数量只有2024年的三分之一。2026年四月中旬我去的时候,看起来好像有人把整个沼泽地都砍光了,只剩下几英寸深。今天我发现了大约十几株严重矮小的捕蝇草。通常这个时候它们应该开花了,但现在只有一些小小的未开放的花朵……而且捕蝇草本身也小得几乎看不见。
通常那里会有几十株紫兰花盛开。今天我只找到了一株。
我们这里正经历着局部干旱,但沼泽地却干涸得厉害,即使在干旱时期,情况也比正常情况糟糕得多。
我收藏了2010年至2024年间的大量精彩照片。可惜的是,过去两年的照片根本不值得收藏。