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During the land acquisition process for the Everglades National Park in the 1950s, the NPS was hindered by the many real estate title issues at the property; in 1958, the Miami Herald reported that 1,350 people were still paying taxes on land owned in the "phantom town", [16] and over 2,000 lots were still privately owned in 1960. [1]
On March 24, 2016, the Adams Ranch in Fort Pierce was the first set of conservation easements added to the NWR, followed the Hatchineha Ranch owned by the Nature Conservancy, Adams Ranch, Camp Lonesome, Tiger Cattle Company and the Idols Aside property, totalling more than 4,214.99 acres (1,705.75 ha) with an additional 1,502.26 acres (607.94 ha) of purchased land that includes 400 acres (160 ...
The Everglades Digital Library is a library with multiple large and growing collections that regularly add new materials, including scientific and technical reports, natural history writings, educational resources, maps, photographs, and additional contextual materials on and relating to the greater Everglades.
Everglades National Park: MPS "Archeological Resources of Everglades National Park - Multiple Property Documentation Form". National Park Service: NRHP reference No. 64500094: Added to NRHP: November 5, 1996 [1]
This map shows the Everglades Agricultural Area, as designated by the Central and Southern Florida Project. The Everglades Agricultural Area Environmental Protection District (EAA EPD), better known as simply the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA), is an area extending south from Lake Okeechobee to the northern levee of Water Conservation Area 3A, from its eastern boundary at the L-8 canal to ...
Thus the marine ecosystems in Florida Bay are considered to be a part of the Everglades watershed and one of the ecosystems connected to and affected by the Everglades as a whole. More than 800 square miles (2,100 km 2 ) of Florida Bay is protected by Everglades National Park , representing the largest body of water in the park boundaries. [ 80 ]
The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) is the plan enacted by the U.S. Congress for the restoration of the Everglades ecosystem in southern Florida. When originally authorized by the U.S. Congress in 2000, it was estimated that CERP would cost a total of $8.2 billion and take approximately 30 years to complete. More recent ...
Swampland in Florida is a figure of speech referring to real estate scams in which a seller misrepresents unusable swampland as developable property. These types of unseen property scams became widely known in the United States in the 20th century, and the phrase is often used metaphorically for any scam that misrepresents what is being sold.