3 edition of Establishment of Everglades National Park, Fla. found in the catalog.
Establishment of Everglades National Park, Fla.
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Lands and Surveys
Published
1933
by [s.n.] in Washington
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Written in
Edition Notes
| Other titles | Establishment of Everglades National Park |
| Series | S.rp.50 |
| The Physical Object | |
|---|---|
| Format | Electronic resource |
| Pagination | 21 p. |
| Number of Pages | 21 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL16169193M |
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Scale ca. , Depths shown by gradient tints. Shows vegetation zones. "Stock Number " Includes text, distance lists, and col. ill. Text, tourist information, park map showing visitors' centers, and ill. (some col.) on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2. More than million acres of South Florida's million acres of subtropical, watery wilderness were given national-park status and protection in with the creation of Everglades National Park.
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An average of one million people visit the park Location: Miami-Dade, Monroe, & Collier. Rooted in the "River of Grass" that once was the dominant landmark in south Florida, Everglades National Park is in a state of flux due to environmental pressures as it marks its 60th anniversary today.
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Everglades National Park encompasses the southwestern portion of the region and is the largest subtropical wilderness left in the United prideofaberdeenawards.com park was authorized inbut, because of difficulties acquiring land, it was not established until UNESCO designated it (along with Dry Tortugas National Park) a Biosphere Reserve in and a World Heritage site in In her highly influential book, Marjory Stoneman Douglas brings national attention to the degradation of America’s Everglades.
Everglades National Park Established Congress sets aside million acres of conservation land to create Everglades National Park.
Notes Scope and Content: Establishment of Everglades National Park. Hearings, Seventy-first Congress, third session, on H.R. Funding: Electronic format produced as part of Reclaiming the Everglades, a collaborative project of the University of Miami, Florida International University, and the Historical Museum of Southern Florida, funded by the Library of Congress/Ameritech National.
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“But as the Everglades continued to wither, a few of their colleagues began to wonder if conservation really should mean development more than preservation. These heretics did not believe that God had created man in order to 'improve' or 'redeem' nature; they found God's grace in nature itself.”.
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Apr 27, · History of Everglades National Park At the end of the nineteenth century the south Florida coast was still largely wilderness, one of the last coastal regions east of the Mississippi to be settled. Only three small communities, Chokoloskee, Cape Sable and Flamingo, existed along the coast of what is now Everglades National Park/5(43).Oct 01, · National Park Service Handbook Illustrations by Betty Frazer.
Presents the story of the Everglades National Park and its plants and animals, some of them found nowhere else in the United States. Includes checklists of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, trees, and tree-like plants. Also contains a chapter on Indians of the prideofaberdeenawards.com: George, Jean Craighead.Scale ca."Reprint " Depths shown by gradient tints.
Shows vegetation zones. "Stock number " Includes text, distance lists, and col. ill. Text, tourist information, park map showing visitors' centers, and ill. (some col.) on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2.
