The vegetation is mostly grassland, which shines with an almost alien-green intensity in the spring, dotted with copses of twisted oak and buckeye trees.
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John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
4 May 2026
Walk in forests where dragonflies buzz and orchids bloom in secret copses.
Monroe County Sheriff’s Office detectives and state investigators identified the man believed to have killed two sisters from New Jersey found dead in the woods in the Florida Keys in 1973.
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David Goodhue,
Miami Herald,
2 Sep. 2026
After, she was ostracized by her own community and lived the rest of her life isolated in a shack in the woods.
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