Everglades National Park
Everglades National Park protects the southern fifth of Florida's original Everglades — the largest tropical wilderness in the United States and the largest stretch of wild land east of the Mississippi. Established in 1947, it was the first national park created not for mountain grandeur or canyon drama but expressly to safeguard a fragile ecosystem. UNESCO added it to the World Heritage List in 1979. At its heart flows a broad, slow sheet of water draining southwest from Lake Okeechobee to Florida Bay — the "river of grass" that sustains the most important tropical wading-bird breeding grounds in North America and the largest mangrove system in the Western Hemisphere. Scattered through the interior, every ranger station, old settlement, and shell mound tells a story of the long, complicated relationship between this wetland and the people who tried to live in it.
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The overlooked corners inside
Cape Sable
The ground beneath your feet is some of the only solid dry land in the Everglades. Cape Sable juts into Florida Bay, and the Flamingo settlement at its tip had a post office by the early 1890s — though the only way to reach it back then was by boat. The scattered community of farmers, fishers, and charcoal-makers who lived among the Ten Thousand Islands relied on Flamingo and the island of Chokoloskee as their two main supply and trading stops. This unremarkable patch of dry ground was one of the few places in this watery landscape where you could actually stand.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org
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