would kill everglades park. the question is how do you balance that? i need two hands to hold the pole and i need mac to tell me what's in it. >> so it's a camera on a pole. >> a gopro. >> but now after decades of frustration, water managers call jerry for his advice before they open floodgates in ways that would wipe out his beloved birds. >> i like to say well we quit digging a hole anyway. we've been digging a hole for the last hundred years and it's getting worse and worse and worse. this bay and the everglades are unbelievably resilient if unbelievably delicate. we can screw them up, but if we can put things back right, they'll heal themselves. >> okay. it looks like there's one chick. it's alive. >> that's a good thing. >> yeah. it's a relief.