Lindsey Ballantyne
• Everglades is located on southern section of the Florida
peninsula, about 20 miles away from the Biscayne
National Park.
• The park is about 1,509,000 acres
• The elevation ranged from about 0 to 8 feet
above sea level
• The Everglades National Park was established in
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1947.
They where trying to conserve the natural
landscape and prevent degradation of the land,
plants and animals.
The Everglades is full of endless marches, dense
mangroves, towering palms, alligator holes, and
tropical fauna.
• The people that lived in Florida where hoping to preserve at least
part of the Everglades first proposed that the area become a
national park in 1923. several years later, the Florida state
legislature established the Tropical Everglades National Park
Commission to study the formation of a protected area. The
commission was led by a conservationist named Ernest Coe who
was eventually nicknamed "Father of Everglades National Park.
Coe's original plan for the park included more than 2,000,000 acres
(8,100 km2) including Key Largo and Big Cypress, and his
unwillingness to compromise almost prevented the park's creation.
Various other interests, including land developers and sport hunters,
demanded some of the land be trimmed
• and is the third-largest national park in the lower
48 states after Death Valley National Park and
Yellowstone National Park
• two tribes of Native Americans developed on the
peninsula's southern tip: the Tequesta lived on
the eastern side and the Calusa, greater in
numbers, on the western side. The Everglades
served as a natural boundary between them.
The Tequesta lived in a single large community
near the mouth of the Miami River, while the
Calusa lived in 30 villages. Both groups traveled
through the Everglades, but rarely lived within
them, remaining mostly along the coast.
• There is about 1 million people that Visit
the Everglades Park every year.
• The Everglades is mild and pleasant from
December through April, though rare cold
fronts may create near freezing conditions.
Average temperatures in winter - High
77°F (25°C); Low 53°F (12°C). Summers
are hot and humid, with temperatures
around 90°F (32°C) and humidity over
90%. Afternoon the area. Average
Rainfall: 60 inches (152 cm) per year.
• The Everglades provides a sanctuary, as well as
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a breeding and feeding ground, for many
species of wading birds that depend on the
climate's wet and dry cycle in order to
reproduce.
More than 350 species of birds, 300 species of
fresh and saltwater fish, 40 species of mammals,
and 50 species of reptiles live within Everglades
National Park.
• sawgrass marsh, pine forests, hardwood
trees like mahogany, gumbo limbo, cocoa
palm, yucca, and grasses
• You can take hikes.
• Out door activities- boat tours throughout
the park.
• Nearby attractions- only parks like
Biscayne National park, Big Cypress
National Preserve, Dry Tortugas National
park.
• Art exhibits
• Its would be a great place to go if you
have a family. Because there is a lot to see
the do for example there are trails that
you can go threw and see all the plants
and animals threw the trails, you can also
go on boat tours throughout the park…