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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 ...
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.
Everglades National Park spans more than 1.5 million acres of South Florida. Visitors may enter from Miami, Homestead or Everglades City, near Naples, by land, and should note that the park’s ...
The Everglades was originally given protected status in 1947 in order to preserve its extreme biodiversity, and the vast sub-tropical wilderness here continues to flourish as a habitat for ...