Everglades National Park | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-18

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Everglades National Park


00:02:21 1 Geography
00:03:02 1.1 Geology
00:05:00 1.2 Hydrography
00:06:03 1.3 Climate
00:07:06 2 Ecosystems
00:08:04 2.1 Freshwater sloughs and marl prairies
00:10:54 2.2 Tropical hardwood hammocks
00:12:46 2.3 Pineland
00:14:53 2.4 Cypress and mangrove
00:17:51 2.5 Coastal lowlands
00:18:51 2.6 Marine and estuarine
00:20:29 3 Human history
00:20:38 3.1 Native peoples
00:23:47 3.2 American settlements
00:25:13 3.3 Land development and conservation
00:29:36 4 Park history
00:34:40 4.1 Restoration efforts
00:38:12 4.2 Park economics
00:39:14 5 Activities
00:40:39 5.1 Trails
00:42:21 5.2 Camping and recreation
00:44:00 5.3 Dark skies site
00:44:29 6 Threats to the park and ecology
00:44:39 6.1 Diversion and quality of water
00:46:46 6.2 Urban encroachment
00:47:58 6.3 Endangered and threatened animals
00:50:43 6.4 Drought, fire, and rising sea levels
00:52:08 6.5 Non-native species
00:54:55 7 See also



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Everglades National Park is an American national park 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. Everglades is the third-largest national park in the contiguous United States after Death Valley and Yellowstone. UNESCO declared the Everglades & Dry Tortugas Biosphere Reserve in 1976, and listed the park as a World Heritage Site in 1979, while the Ramsar Convention included the park on its list of Wetlands of International Importance in 1987. Everglades is one of only three locations in the world to appear on all three lists.Most national parks preserve unique geographic features; Everglades National Park was the first created to protect a fragile ecosystem. The Everglades are a network of wetlands and forests fed by a river flowing 0.25 miles (0.40 km) per day out of Lake Okeechobee, southwest into Florida Bay. The park is the most significant breeding ground for tropical wading birds in North America and contains the largest mangrove ecosystem in the Western Hemisphere. Thirty-six threatened or protected species inhabit the park, including the Florida panther, the American crocodile, and the West Indian manatee, along with 350 species of birds, 300 species of fresh and saltwater fish, 40 species of mammals, and 50 species of reptiles. The majority of South Florida's fresh water, which is stored in the Biscayne Aquifer, is recharged in the park.Humans have lived for thousands of years in or around the Everglades. Plans arose in 1882 to drain the wetlands and develop the land for agricultural and residential use. As the 20th century progressed, water flow from Lake Okeechobee was increasingly controlled and diverted to enable explosive growth of the South Florida metropolitan area. The park was established in 1934, to protect the quickly vanishing Everglades, and dedicated in 1947, as major canal building projects were initiated across South Florida. The ecosystems in Everglades National Park have suffered significantly from human activity, and restoration of the Everglades is a politically charged issue in South Florida.