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It is such a unique meeting of water, land, and climate that the use of either singular or plural to refer to the Everglades is appropriate. [1] When Marjory Stoneman Douglas wrote her definitive description of the region in 1947, she used the metaphor "River of Grass" to explain the blending of water and plant life.
The climate of South Florida is located across the broad transition zone between subtropical and tropical climates (Koppen Aw, Am and Cfa). Like most regions with this climate type, there are two basic seasons – a "dry season" (winter) which runs from November through April, and a "wet season" (summer) which runs from May through October.
Establishment of the C&SF made Everglades National Park completely dependent upon another political entity for its survival. [84] One of the C&SF's projects was Levee 29, laid along the Tamiami Trail on the northern border of the park.
Everglades National Park. The environment of Florida in the United States yields an array of land and marine life in a mild subtropical climate.This environment has drawn millions of people to settle in the once rural state over the last hundred years.
During the last 6,000 to 7,000 years a wet climate allowed sawgrass-dominated wetlands resembling the Evereglades to develop on the land that is now under Florida Bay. Between 3,000 and 5,000 years ago, the continued rise of the sea level flooded the gently sloping southernmost part of the Everglades to form Florida Bay. [25] [26]
The clearing of large tracts for development has now reduced the pine rocklands to about 20,000 acres (81 km 2), most of which are now protected inside the Everglades National Park. Camp Everglades is a 253-acre (102 ha) campground owned by the Boy Scouts and located within the park. The pine forest is fire dependent, and the flora and fauna ...
The $21 billion effort faces rising seas, violent storms and Florida’s non-stop influx of residents.
Some globally outstanding flooded savannas and grasslands occur in the Everglades, Pantanal, Lake Chad flooded savanna, Zambezian flooded grasslands, and the Sudd. The Everglades, with an area of 7,800 sq mi (20,000 km 2 ), are the world's largest rain-fed flooded grassland on a limestone substrate, and feature some 11,000 species of seed ...