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  2. Draining and development of the Everglades - Wikipedia

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    They began by taxing counties that would be affected by the drainage attempts, at 5 cents an acre, and formed the Everglades Drainage District in 1907. [ 3 ] Broward asked James O. Wright—an engineer on loan to the State of Florida from the USDA 's Bureau of Drainage Investigations—to draw up plans for drainage in 1906.

  3. Everglades - Wikipedia

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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]

  4. Geography and ecology of the Everglades - Wikipedia

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    The drainage was often implemented without a full understanding of the intricacies of ecosystems and shaping processes of the Everglades. [92] The South Florida metropolitan area grew exponentially, causing problems in ecosystems throughout the Everglades.

  5. Are Florida’s sugar farms a greenhouse gas hot spot ... - AOL

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    Drainage has exposed the fertile soils of the Everglades Agricultural Area, a region responsible for much of the nation’s sugar cane. ... Map showing where the Everglades Agricultural Area is ...

  6. Watersheds of North America - Wikipedia

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    Watersheds of North America are large drainage basins which drain to separate oceans, seas, gulfs, or endorheic basins. There are six generally recognized hydro-logical continental divides which divide the continent into seven principal drainage basins spanning three oceans ( Arctic , Atlantic and Pacific ) and one endorheic basin.

  7. Everglades National Park - Wikipedia

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    Location: Miami-Dade, Monroe, & Collier counties, Florida, United States: Nearest city: Florida City Everglades City: Coordinates: 1]: Area: 1,508,976 acres (6,106.61 km 2) 1,508,243 acres (2,356.6 sq mi) federal [2]: Authorized: May 30, 1934; 90 years ago (): Visitors: 1,155,193 (in 2022) [3]: Governing body: National Park Service: Website: nps.gov /ever: UNESCO World Heritage Site. Type ...

  8. List of rivers of Florida - Wikipedia

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    The Everglades, sometimes called the "river of grass", is a very wide and shallow river that originates from Lake Okeechobee. Most of Florida's streams and rivers drain into the Gulf of Mexico . Drainage on the east coast of Florida is dominated by the St. Johns River , which, with the swamps that form its headwaters, extends parallel to the ...

  9. List of drainage basins by area - Wikipedia

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    It includes oceanic sea drainage basins which have hydrologically coherent areas (oceanic seas are set by IHO convention). The oceans drain approximately 83% of the land in the world. The other 17% – an area larger than the basin of the Arctic Ocean – drains to internal endorheic basins.