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    life in Miami to live his last hours in the cabin in Punta Rassa , Florida; the cabin his grandfather had built. Thus, the three generations of MacIveys in Florida ends. The first generation of MacIveys consisted of the father and husband, Tobias, the mother and wife, Emma, and their young son, Zech. The family had decided to escape the pressures of the Civil War in their native Georgia, and move to the scrub of Northern Florida. The MacIveys experience many troubles and learn many new

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    Everglades National Park Everglades National Park is a great park. It has lakes, swamps, ocean, plants , and also, it has so much wildlife. If you like the ocean, and lots of plants , Everglades National Park is the place to go. The Everglades is in the state of Florida, the 27th state of America. The Everglades covers the whole southern end of the mainland of Florida. It is the sunshine state because of how much sun it gets every year. The capital of the state is Tallahassee, and the largest

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    Like many other parts of the American Southwest, historic arroyo cutting in the late 1800s and early 1900s created extensive exposures of Holocene alluvium on the southern Colorado Plateau. Since the 1920s (Bryan, 1925), these exposures have been studied by scores of geologists and archaeologists interested in documenting climate and landscape change and deciphering its causes. Many landmark studies have been conducted, but despite this long history of research, few questions have been satisfactorily

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    The Everglades Rachel Thompson BIO 100 January 11, 2011 Connie Cassidy The Florida Everglades is the state’s most highly visited park in the state. The Everglades is also home to thousands of animals, reptiles, and plants. Many tourist travels just to get a glimpse of the many exotic reptiles. Although, the Everglades is very beautiful it’s also one of the most endangered parks in the state. The park is endangered from humans and land developments. The state has laws imposed to

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    The Everglades On May 30, 1934, an Act was passed, which authorized a park to be created through public donations. Thirteen years later, through a combination of private, state and federal lands, an expansive wetland was hopefully immortalized as a national park. Everglades was the first national park that was preserved primarily for its biota, in lieu of scenic or historic values. Shortly after moving to Miami in 1925, Ernest F. Coe, made the Everglades Park

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    Leonila Reyes November 26, 2017 AP English Mrs. DeMatteo Who we are can be impacted by who raised us and the people that we choose to surround ourselves with. Depending on who we are with it can bring out different sides of ourselves that we never thought we had or could have. This is what

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    Recently in Florida, gentlemen and women have been talking about the up-stirring event that has taken place. Most men and women who hunt are accompanied by their dogs while hunting for creatures such as birds, deer, beavers, raccoons, cougars, etc. When you see a hunter or pictures of hunters, you usually see a dog/dogs with those hunters. In Florida, hunting is a big deal. Not just any kind of hunting though, this is a special kind of hunting. Florida is full of large snakes and large reptiles called

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    and fish species (Snow et al. 2007). In southern Florida, pythons have established themselves across thousands of square kilometers including all of Everglades National Park (Boback et al. 2016). Research points to multiple instances of pet release to be the cause of their introduction to the Everglades as a foreign species (Snow et al. 2007). Python populations have significantly increased in both abundance and geographic range in the Everglades since their introduction, preying on a wide variety

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    The everglades national park The everglades national park is located in southern Florida. The variety of this habitat has made it a sanctuary for many animal species even some that are in danger of extinction. Some of the animals that take sanctuary in this national park are an assortment of reptiles such as alligators and snakes, an assortment of birds and even the endangered manatee. The everglades national park was put on the world heritage endangered list in 1993 after the parks superintendent

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    The Everglades is a diverse ecosystem located in southern Florida, yet urbanization has created a considerable amount of impact that has altered the physical landscape of the region, resulting in a symbiotic environment between humans and nature. Based on geographical research, the original Everglades spanned an area of approximately 12,000km2, and now because of urbanization and agricultural growth in this sub-region the area of the Everglades has been condensed to half of its original size (Willard

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