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Everglades

Everglades Notes

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Everglades The massive South Florida freshwater wetlands clued as the "River of Grass" and protected under the Ramsar Convention.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas The environmental activist and author whose 1947 book permanently redefined popular perception of the Everglades.
Napoleon Bonaparte Broward The progressive Florida Governor who campaigned on an aggressive platform to completely drain the Everglades.
Burmese Python The highly destructive South Asian invasive species that has decimated native mammal populations across South Florida.
Big Cypress The national preserve and swamp located in Collier County that borders the western edge of Everglades National Park.
Biscayne Aquifer The critical subterranean freshwater system recharged by the Everglades that supplies metropolitan Miami.
Ten Thousand Islands The extensive coastal mangrove archipelago positioned off the southwestern shore of the Florida mainland.
Mud Lake Canal The prehistoric canoe transit canal engineered through the coastal mangrove swamps by the ancient Calusa people.
Tamiami Trail The cross-cutting highway linking Tampa and Miami that historically acted as an artificial dam blocking sheet-flow.
Calusa The ancient maritime indigenous people who engineered advanced shell mounds and transit canals in Southwest Florida.
Lake Okeechobee The massive freshwater lake whose historic southern overflow forms the headwaters of the true Everglades sheet-flow.
Kissimmee River The channelized river system located at the northern boundary of the basin that acts as the primary inflow for Lake Okeechobee.
HM-69 The historic Cold War Nike Hercules Missile base preserved intact within the boundaries of Everglades National Park.
Eastern Airlines Flight 401 The commercial flight that tragically crashed into the Everglades muck in 1972 after its crew became distracted by a burnt-out light bulb.
Chickee The open-walled, elevated stilt house architecture engineered by the Seminole people to survive in flooded environments.
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