diverse treasures - the 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
THE EVERGLADES: RIVER OF GRASS The Everglades, also known as the River of Grass, is one of South Florida's most treasured areas. It is an area still full of wonder and mystery. The Everglades is lined with a specific type of limestone bedrock formed by tiny organisms called byrozoans. These animals, though not related to coral, act like coral by extracting dissolved limestone from the sea water around them and using it to construct protective chambers in which to live. They then attach to
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
in the Florida Everglades has become a major concern among ecologists and the general public alike. While it is generally accepted that this population has stemmed from the escape of these snakes from the exotic pet trade (Pyron et al., 2008), and that the snakes have been able to flourish due to the climatic similarities between South Florida and their native regions of subtropic Southeast Asia, scientists are still trying to determine exactly how the python population in the Everglades has managed
describes many ecosystems such as the Everglades in Florida, which is facing changes that are upsetting the ecosystem's delicate balance. Located in Florida, the Everglades is a massive wetland consisting of many marshes and mangrove forests. It is also the home to many animal species, many of which are very rare. The Everglades was like this for many years until its natural order was disrupted by in the early 1900s by incoming settlers. These settlers saw the Everglades as useless marshes, so they ended
The Everglades; a treasured river Marjory Stoneman Douglas (April 7, 1890 – May 14, 1998) was an American journalist, writer and environmentalist known for her staunch defense of the Florida Everglades against draining and development. Moving to Miami as a young woman to work for The Miami Herald, Douglas became a freelance writer, producing over a hundred short stories that were published in popular magazines. Her most influential work was the book The Everglades: River of Grass (1947), which
nature-made problems have arose for the Florida Everglades. The badly affected water has taken a tole on the Everglades. The wildlife and clean water has decreased in the Everglades. The water supply of the Everglades has badly affected the park and animals. The water supply of the Everglades has been getting worse and worse, causing the quantity and diversity of wildlife to decrease. From 1905 to 1910, people started to do construction on the Everglades cutting off the flow of fresh water to it
the Florida Everglades, a subtropical wetland ecosystem with an amazing biodiversity. However, this ecosystem is falling apart due to a variety of reasons. For example, snakes not native to this wetland are introduced threatening this ecosystem's food web. The Florida Everglades is a wetland worth preserving though, because it provides a habitat for wildlife, essentially supports the economy of the United States, and humans benefit from this ecosystem. To begin with, the Florida Everglades provides
The Everglades has been a foundational part of Florida ever since it was discovered. Its swamps have taken hold of the bottom quadrant of the Florida peninsula with its majestic swamps and exotic wildlife within. However, with Florida's population growth since the turn of the twenty-first century, the Everglades has been threatened by man (Everglades). The Everglades has sustained substantial damage due to over-drainage, runoff of nutrient pollutants, like phosphorus, and the spreading of algae 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),
On a normal day in Cleveland Ohio, the police received several calls from terrified people saying that there was a tiger or bear in their front yard. One man set his exotic pets lose. Now there were chimpanzees, grizzly bears, and Bengal Tigers roaming the city. That was just one time in which exotic pets were set loose. Some say that there’s nothing wrong with owning exotic pets, but the facts show that there are great risks involved in having exotic pets. Exotic pets can pass on diseases, be aggressive
Mercury in the Everglades Everglades Background Information: * Established in 1947 on 1.4 million acres in southwest Florida * Sunny, Semi-Tropical Swamp Setting. Experiences near daily downpours (http://srv3sftpa.er.usgs.gov/sofl.fact.html) Mercury's Effect on the Everglades: * A small amount of mercury is found in the crust of the earth. This is not the problem. The anthropogenic mercury is the problem. The mercury that is growing dangerously in size is known as methylmercury
God In Zora Neale Hurston’s romantic novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, two settings are contrasted to reinforce the author’s theme of a search for true love. The setting of Eatonville, Florida, where main character Janie experiences life as the mayor’s wife, is contrasted with the Florida Everglades, where Janie lives with Tea Cake in a much more relaxed atmosphere. Hurston describes Eatonville not in a negative way, but more as a place that is not beneficial to an independent woman like
Universal Design for Learning Teachers are faced with the challenge of helping all students learn and succeed in their classroom. This is a daunting task because of the diversity of learners that come from various learning styles, English language proficiency, or even learning disabilities. The Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST) was founded in 1984 by a group of educators that were interested in providing a better educational experience for students with disabilities. The results of
Ecology. Sioux City: Chapman and Hall, 1995. Angel, Heather. The Water Naturalist. Memphis: Windmill Publishers, 1982. Gomez, Jane. The Everglades. Boston: Houghton, 1992. Marshall, Alexandra. Still Waters. New York: William Marrow & Co., 1978. Mitchell, John G. “Our Disappearing Wetlands.” National Geographic October 1992: Pgs.44. Mairson, Alan. “Florida Everglades: Dying For Help.” National Geographic April 1994: Pgs. 2-35. “Wetlands” Encarta Encyclopedia. Ed. Redmond, WA: Microsoft Inc. Copywrite
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
How has deforestation impacted the Everglades and the surrounding ecosystem? The Everglades is a subtropical wetland ecosystem spanning two million acres across central and south Florida. Originally the Greater Everglades ecosystem had a large diversity of habitats connected by wetlands and water bodies. Since the 1800s, humans have been altering the Everglades landscape. Water diversions and flood control structures restrict the flow of water across the sensitive landscape. Combined with agricultural
The effect of the water supply on Everglades National Park is huge. The bad water supply effects plants, animals, and humans. Three big examples on how the water supply effects the water supply on Everglades National Park are the time, money, and effort that goes into it, how it effects animals who live in the Everglades, and how it effects humans who live in and around the Everglades. First of all, the attempt to clean up the Everglades National Park has taken alot of time, effort, and money. According
Everglades National Park is sanction to some of the most exceptional animal and plant ecosystems. From the tall, sunny rock pinelands to the humid, lush hardwood hammocks to the tropical, sawgrass marsh, the everglades is believed to be one of the most diverse and astonishing ecosystems in the United States. Sounds of birds tickle your eardrums, beautiful flowers bloom in the radiant morning sun, animals graze peacefully as they go about their day in their natural habitat. It is a breath taking sight
life in Miami to live his last hours in the cabin in Punta Rassa , Florida; the cabin his grandfather had built. Thus, the three generations of MacIveys in Florida ends. The first generation of MacIveys consisted of the father and husband, Tobias, the mother and wife, Emma, and their young son, Zech. The family had decided to escape the pressures of the Civil War in their native Georgia, and move to the scrub of Northern Florida. The MacIveys experience many troubles and learn many new things during