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Save Our Everglades
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Keywords

  • Everglades
  • Everglades National Park
  • Sawgrass
 

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Suggested Websites

  • Everglades Digital Library
    The Everglades Digital Library (EDL) is a service of the Digital Collections Center at Florida International University Libraries in Miami, Florida. The EDL was established in 1996 to support research, and education.
  • The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan
    The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) provides a framework and guide to restore, protect and preserve the water resources of central and southern Florida, including the Everglades.
  • Everglades Coalition
    The Everglades Coalition is an alliance of more than fifty local, state and national conservation and environmental organizations dedicated to full restoration of the greater Everglades ecosystem, from the Kissimmee Chain of Lakes into Lake Okeechobee and to the estuaries, through the River of Grass, out to Florida Bay and the Keys.
 

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    Definition

    "The Everglades, in Southern Florida, is a low region of periodically flooded sawgrass prairies and swamps in a shallow basin that slopes gently in a broad arc from Lake Okeechobee to the Gulf of Mexico." (Encyclopedia of Americana)

     

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    • How important is the Everglades to the ecosystem?
    • What impact has agriculture had on the Everglades, especially "Big Sugar"?
    • Why are the Everglades important to humans?
    • How successful are restoration efforts and who should pay for them?
    • What has been the effect of hurricanes on the Everglades?
    • What risks might global warming have?
     

    Reference Books

    Everglades Handbook: Understanding the Ecosystem
    Call Number: REF QH 105 .F6 L63 2005

    Conservation & Environmentalism: an Encyclopedia
    Call Number: REF GE 10 .C68

    Discover a Watershed: the Everglades
    Call Number: REF QH 541.5 .V3 D57

    Environmental Encyclopedia - 3rd
    Call Number: REF GE 10 .E58 2003 v.1

    Everglades The Ecosystem and Its Restoration
    Call Number: REF QH 105 .F6 E94 1997

     
     

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