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The Everglades are a complex system of interdependent ecosystems. Marjory Stoneman Douglas described the area as a "River of Grass" in 1947, though that metaphor represents only a portion of the system. The area recognized as the Everglades, prior to drainage, was a web of marshes and prairies 4,000 square miles (10,000 km 2) in size. [36]
Everglades National Park is a national park of the United States that protects the southern twenty percent of the original Everglades in Florida.The park is the largest tropical wilderness in the United States and the largest wilderness of any kind east of the Mississippi River.
Everglades National Park was designated in 1947 and sits at the southernmost portion of the state. A cloud bank grows over the Gulf of Mexico off an island in Everglades National Park off of ...
At only 5,000 years of age, the Everglades is a young region in geological terms. Its ecosystems are in constant flux as a result of the interplay of three factors: the type and amount of water present, the geology of the region, and the frequency and severity of fires.
Park Ranger Riley Hays, 32, shows a crocodile skeleton in front of the new exhibits displayed at the Guy Bradley Flamingo Visitor Center inside Everglades National Park in Homestead, Florida, on ...
Flamingo is the southernmost headquarters of Everglades National Park, in Monroe County, Florida, United States.Flamingo is one of the two end points of the 99-mile (159-km) Wilderness Waterway (with another end point at Gulf Coast Visitor Center in the Everglades City), and the southern end of the only road (running 39.3 miles (63.2 km) [1]) through the park from Florida City.