X-Nico

6 unusual facts about Everglades


Everglades, Florida

In 1922 Barron Collier began buying large areas of land in what was then southern Lee County.

Florida State Road 820

Pines Boulevard begins at an intersection with Okeechobee Road near the western fringes of Broward County development and the Everglades.

Oxyops vitiosa

It was introduced into Florida in order to help drain flooded portions of the Everglades.

It was later planted extensively in order to help drain flooded portions of the Everglades.

Pine–cypress forest

Many of the Florida occurrences of pine–cypress forest are in swampy areas such as the Everglades.

Tom Hagen

In August 1964, Geraci kidnaps Hagen and drowns him in the Florida Everglades.


Arthur Marshall

Arthur R. Marshall (1919–1985), scientist, ecologist and Everglades conservationist

Ernest F. Coe

In 1997, the 105th Congress declared that Coe was the primary force behind the creation of Everglades National Park, acknowledged that he is considered the "Father of Everglades National Park", and resolved that the visitors' center closest to Homestead be dedicated in his name.

Eugene Savage

In 1935 and 1953 Savage visited Florida, where he painted the experience of the Seminole Indians in their Everglades habitat especially taking note of the intrusion of modern civilization into what seemed to be a Garden of Eden pastoral existence.

Everglades Foundation

The region south of the yellow line includes Lake Okeechobee, the Everglades, the Big Cypress Swamp, the Atlantic Coastal Ridge, the estuarine mangroves of the Ten Thousand Islands, and Florida Bay.

Mega Python vs. Gatoroid

Several months later, Terry meets Dr. Diego Ortiz (A Martinez), who warns her that an all-out war between the giant pythons and the mutated alligators in the Everglades has begun.

A group of animal activists, consisting of Dr. Nikki Riley (Debbie Gibson), Gia (Arden Cho) and Ben (Patrick Hancock), break into a house and steal dozens of exotic pythons before setting them free into the Florida Everglades.

Nations Air

The demise of scheduled service for Nations Air occurred after the Valu-jet crash in the Florida Everglades created a huge backlash against small start-up carriers and the perception that they were unsafe from a standpoint of maintenance and training which grounded Valu-jet and forced them to redesign themselves through a merger and name change with AirTran, an Orlando based startup.

Oleta

Oleta River, river situated north of Miami that drains the northern Everglades into Biscayne Bay

Port Everglades

Port Everglades was once home to RMS Queen Elizabeth when she was laid up as a museum ship from 1968 until 1970.

River of Grass

:For Marjory Stoneman Douglas's 1947 non-fiction book about the Florida Everglades, see The Everglades: River of Grass

Snoop Minnis

Following his retirement in 2005, Minnis joined Lexus as a salesman in Lexus of Pembroke Pines, and he was the Wide Receivers Coach at Everglades High School in Miramar.

Southern Reunion

All tracks were produced by Mo, engineered and mixed by Simon Smart, with the exception of "The Man From The Everglades" which was engineered and mixed by Mo.

Taylor Slough

Taylor Slough, located in the southeastern corner of the Florida Everglades, along with the much larger Shark River Slough farther to the west, are the principal natural drainages for the freshwater Everglades.

The World's Most Dangerous Magic

Dean Gunnarson-Gunnarson escaped suspended upside down hanging from a trapzee bar over a swamp of 130 hungry alligators in the Florida everglades covered in chicken meat and blood.

Wind Across the Everglades

The film was loosely based upon the life and death of Guy Bradley, an early game warden who in 1905 was shot and killed by plume hunters in the Everglades.


see also