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Everglades University, formerly American Flyers College, is a private university with its main campus in Boca Raton, Florida, and several other campuses throughout the state. [6] Everglades offers bachelor's and master's degree programs, both via online and on-campus.
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.
The Everglades Wetland Research Park is a teaching and research facility of Florida Gulf Coast University. [1] It is located at the Naples Botanical Garden , in Naples, Florida , USA. The facility's focus is the function and importance of wetlands , with an emphasis on the restoration and conservation of wetlands in the Florida Everglades and ...
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. An average of one million people visit the park each year. [5]
The Everglades & Dry Tortugas Biosphere Reserve (established 1976) is a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. The 636,411 hectares (2,457.20 sq mi) reserve encompasses Everglades National Park and Dry Tortugas National Park , including historic Fort Jefferson and the seven Dry Tortugas islands.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Everglades National Park, Florida, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a Google map.
The Turner River Site is an archaeological site in the Ten Thousand Islands region of Everglades National Park, in Florida. It is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. The Turner River Site is a large shell works site .5 miles (0.80 km) from the mouth of the Turner River, near Chokoloskee Island. The site covers 30 acres (12 ...
The idea of a national park for the Everglades was pitched in 1928, when a Miami land developer named Ernest F. Coe established the Everglades Tropical National Park Association. It had enough support to be declared a national park by Congress in 1934. It took another 13 years to be dedicated on December 6, 1947. [130]