Topic: Florida Everglades

Everglades' Salvation

ASEE Prism - 1234 days ago
Florida's Everglades swamp once covered more than 6,250 square miles. It's now half that size, thanks in part to a 2,000-mile network of flood-control canals built over the past century to drain water to the ocean and make room for 5 million ...
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The Restoration of Florida's Everglades

Suite 101 - 1281 days ago
In the 1940s Marjory Stoneman Douglas wrote about the area in her book, The Everglades: The Florida Everglades is home to the endangered Florida panther (Felis concolor), wood stork (Mycteria americana) and Cape Sable seaside sparrow (Ammodramus maritimus mirabilis) as well as ...

Saving South America's Pantanal

Suite 101 - 1283 days ago
Lessons learned in countries where wetlands have been drained for flood control, as has happened to the USA's Florida Everglades, can be used to wisely manage one of the world's largest wetlands that still has immense biodiversity, the Pantanal of South America. ...

National Parks Guide: November/December

Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel - 1345 days ago
Florida's Everglades have miles of canals great for canoeing, while Hawaii's Volcanoes and Haleakala parks are known for spectacular sunrises. Masses of people head to Hawaii, Florida, and the Caribbean over Christmas and New Year's simply because that's when it's convenient for ...

Beat the Crowds: November

Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel - 1549 days ago
Florida's Everglades have miles of canals great for canoeing, while Hawaii's Volcanoes and Haleakala parks are known for spectacular sunrises. Masses of people head to Hawaii, Florida, and the Caribbean over Christmas and New Year's simply because that's when it's convenient for ...