The Citrus County Health Department last week cautioned the public against handling sick or injured wildlife and advised people to call the county's animal control unit if they see animals behaving in unusual ways. Yet cycles of dry and wet are embedded into their sense of survival. We have to will ourselves through the drought. If the folks paid to predict weather patterns are correct, we'll better understand those ebbs and flows in about a month. Sure, there's reason to worry.
Scientists often are wrong.
It may not rain this summer. Then, wildlife would really face a threat, biologists say. But eventually, the water will begin to flow again. Once again we'll be able to appreciate nature our way. Staff writer Jim Ross contributed to this report.