Chameleon Swamp Chuds. That’s gotta be a southern rock outfit, I swear.

Nah. It was alternate universes.

The thing is, while there are actually pine forests all across Florida, they’re made up of a local species of really thin and spindley pines that grow super tall and have relatively few branches, and in many places most of the vegetation is actually the dense scrub of the forest floor.

If Shaennon’s depiction of big, broad, fat pines and firs is accurate to the episode, then yeah – wrong species entirely, and wrong biome entirely. Florida forests, despite the heavy annual rainfall, tend to not retain a lot of water and are actually fairly dry places. (If you ignore the 100% humidity of the air, but that’s kind of everywhere, so you might as well ignore it.) The forests themselves tend to have a lot of dry, dead pine needles on the floors, and a lot of dry, scratchy brush that is unfortunately flammable and densely grown.

But yeah, it looks NOTHING like the temperate rainforests of the Pacific Northwest.

Episode was set in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apalachicola_National_Forest and that’s Panhandle, not ‘Glades. Sorry.

My favorite thing I left out is where the other FBI agents assume they made up the monster attack so they could expense their trip.