The Florida Everglades is one of the most diverse wetland ecosystems in the United States. These tropical wetlands span an area of more than seven hundred square miles in southern Florida. The term Everglade means river of grass. The system starts in central Florida near Orlando and travels southwest to the tip of Florida. The Everglades has a wet season and a dry season which causes a great change in hydrology. During the wet season the system is a slow moving river that is sixty miles wide and
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Florida Everglades. This national park is now the only remaining patch of a river that used to span 120 miles from Lake Okeechobee to the Florida Bay. Dikes and levees created by the Army Corps of Engineers in the late 1940's drained this river to reduce flooding and increase useable water for the development of the region. This major diversion of water lead to a trickle down effect causing the continual decline of the environmental state of the Everglades. Since then, debates over the Everglades' future
The Florida Everglades is very valuable to the environment. The Everglades helps the food chain continue and keep plant and animal life safe. Many different kinds of species that live in the Everglades. If someone destroyed the Everglades, then a lot of plants and animals would die and have nowhere to go and possibly go extinct. The Everglades provides many habitats for different types of plants and animals that only can survive in it. The Everglades provides a healthy ecosystem for plants and animals
The Florida Everglades have been slowly and steadily diminishing in size for over many decades. Throughout the years, the Everglades have had an abundant, healthy environment. The massive swamps were once rich with marshland, and had ecosystems chock-full of wildlife. However, due to large corporations, natural disasters and most importantly, the growth of the human population, the Everglades are 50% smaller than they were hundreds of years ago. The destruction of the Florida Everglades includes not
and restoration of the Everglades to how it had functioned at the turn of the century. The creation of the Save Our Everglades Program in 1983, the Florida Preservation 2000 act in 1990 (which provided funding for land acquisition for conservation and recreation), The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) of 1992 (which re-examined previously implemented flood control practices), and The Everglades Investment Act of 2000 (which committed Florida to a 50% cost share for Everglades restoration)
Rescuing the Everglades INTRODUCTION The Everglades, commonly referred to as the "River of Grass," is the largest remaining sub-tropical wilderness in the lower 48 states. It contains both fresh and saltwater areas, open Everglades prairies, pine rocklands, tropical hardwood forests, offshore coral reefs, and mangrove forests. The broad spectrum of wildlife living in the Everglades includes aquatic birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians, of which fifty-six species are endangered or threatened
The Everglades is a diverse ecosystem located in southern Florida, yet urbanization has created a considerable amount of impact that has altered the physical landscape of the region, resulting in a symbiotic environment between humans and nature. Based on geographical research, the original Everglades spanned an area of approximately 12,000km2, and now because of urbanization and agricultural growth in this sub-region the area of the Everglades has been condensed to half of its original size (Willard
its climate is warm year round, the plant and animal life that inhabit these ecosystems are different. One of the major ecosystems found in south Florida is the Florida Everglades. It is an expansive, grassy, freshwater marsh and forms one of the largest and most complex ecosystems in North America. Within the Florida Everglades, there are estuaries, prairies, lakes, rivers, and streams. Prairies surround the sawgrass marshes, which then give was to mangrove swamps. These ecosystems provide a home
There are numerous management plans in place for the upkeep and sustenance of the Biscayne Bay. The execution of these management strategies is undertaken by various agencies and groups. These plans are created through research and obtaining a full understanding on the issues at hand and how they must be addressed to prevent further problems. The main concerns that are managed relate to the biodiversity, water quality, the declining health and sustainability of ecosystems and the organisms and also