Category: Science - Earth/Agricultural/Farming
Here is the story of the plants and animals of the Everglades, this country’s subtropical kingdom. Plants and animals found nowhere else in the 50 states are found here in abundance, though in an increasingly perilous state. In this handbook, first published in 1972, author an...
Here is the story of the plants and animals of the Everglades, this country’s subtropical kingdom. Plants and animals found nowhere else in the 50 states are found here in abund...
2. Part 2But the relentlessly rising sea of the past 10,000 years has belittled drought, fire, hurricane, and frost as it slowly inundated this land 3 inches each hundred years. In compe...
3. Part 3Every other plant-and-animal community in the park—hammock, mangrove swamp, pineland, etc.—is an association of large and small organisms sharing a physical environment. It is i...
4. Part 4The turtles of the park include terrestrial, fresh-water, and marine species. Box turtles are often seen along the roads. The softshell and snapping turtles live in the fresh-wa...
5. Part 56. Part 6Red-throated Loon F Common Loon R R R Pied-billed Grebe B C U C C Horned Grebe C C C Red-necked Grebe F Sooty Shearwater F Wilson’s Storm Petrel F Brown Booby F Northern Gannet...
7. Part 7More than 50 species of reptiles, including 26 species of snakes and 16 species of turtles, have been found in Everglades National Park. The reptiles include, of course, the all...