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The Everglades National Park, located in southern Florida, is the largest remaining sub-tropical wilderness in the continental United States and has extensive fresh and salt water areas, open Everglades, prairies, and mangrove forests. (1000 Friends of Florida, 2011). The plant life in the Everglades National Park consists of several different species: the marsh species, which includes saw grass, bladderwort, white water lily, spatterdock, maiden cane, and periphyton algae; the tree island and hammock species, which include royal palm, cabbage palm, live oak, gumbo limbo, and West Indian mahogany; orchids, bromeliads, and ferns; and mangroves. The animal life in the Everglades National Park consists of: birds, which include Woodstock, White and Glossy Ibises, Roseate Spoonbill, Great Blue, Great White and Tricolored Herons, Snowy and Great Egrets, Snail Kite, and Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow; land mammals, which include raccoon, skunk, opossum, bobcat, white-tail deer, and Florida panther; and other animals such as, the American alligator and the American crocodile, the West Indian manatee, and the bottlenose dolphin. (Robbins, 2011).…
Management Techniques For The Red-Cockaded Woodpecker On Federal Lands Sean Fraser NRM 304 ABSTRACT The red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides borealis) has been listed as an endangered species since October, 1970. This species inhabits pine forests in the southeastern United States where the majority of prime timberland is privately owned. Private ownership of preferred habitat and historically destructive silvicultural practices create unique problems for federal wildlife managers.…
This primary document is a watercolor painting made in 1954 that depicts the commercial atmosphere encompassing the corner of 21st and Pennsylvania Ave. NW. More specifically, this painting features people walking about present-day James Monroe Park, as well as certain characteristics of everyday urban life (such as a local market, multiple-story buildings, ‘50s era automobiles, and a streetcar). This artwork was created by John A. Bryans, an American artist and educator whose work focuses on the ordinary happenings within cityscapes and rural settings that most people take for granted. With that said, Bryans likely wanted to emphasize both the simplicity and beauty of such a busy area of the city, which was–and still is–locally known as the…
Few places can match the sheer diversity of wildlife and culture that exists in the country’s national park system. Humans, with the future in mind, have “set aside” these beautiful sites of wonder and awe. But at what cost? Do national parks end up being good and bad at the same time?…
One of the important questions that is simple but yet compelling is the question of who actually lived in The Adirondacks, Yosemite, and the Grand Canyon before they became national parks in the United States? Karl Jacoby asks this question in the novel Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation. Most people would focus on the positive efforts to protect nature in environmental tends but Jacoby examines the negative aspects of how nature was mistreated. In Crimes Against Nature, Jacoby argues that the history of the Conservation Movement has two sides. Jacoby seeks to challenge the traditional history of protection of the environment and nature. Jacoby describes that the narrative of conservation is more…
The park itself is brimming with over-whelming activities that are executed in the quiet and calm wilderness present in the park. Among them, camping and hiking are the most popularized activities with an aspect of accommodating a perfectly breezy atmosphere in which visitors gain the ability to interact with the nature and the rate of…
Park 51 is a project of an Mosque Community Center proposed by Imam Feisal Rauf and his wife Daisy Khan, who are American Muslims. What they pretend with this project is to serve to the community and to promote dialogue. Their plan has been approved by city authorities, but it has ignited a nationwide firestorm of protest.…
Have you visited a national park? Do you ever walk around and enjoy nature? You can thank a man named John Muir. John Muir was a naturalist who can be known as “The Father of Our National Parks”. He helped preserve many of our national parks that we see today. John Muir and his love for the wilderness helped the American people learn that they need to preserve the natural beauty around them.…
They insist on visiting a national park because it is a place where nothing is man-made and everything seems more refreshing. By visiting a national park, people are hoping to have a mind clearing experience and a change of heart to someday appreciate the importance of our natural resources. Visitors may consider nature as the world of living things and the beauty of outdoors in its rarest form. Visitors receive the opportunity to learn more about nature’s history, different animals, landmarks, and the fundamentals of nature that they wouldn’t see outside of a national…
National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior. October 26, 2011. Yellowstone Resources and Issues.…
My personal opinion on the matter is that as long as the dog park is going to be a positive impact on the neighborhood.In both articals it talked about the positve and negative aspects of building a dog park in the local area, One of the leading arguments for the positive side is that the majority of the pet owners live in an apartment complex and do not have space for their dogs to run free due to city ordinance.The fact that in new york dog bite reports went down from 40,000 to fewer than 4,000 per year is enough concrete evadience to allow an area to be put aside for a dog park to be built.…
When it comes to one of the biggest national parks in the world, with beautiful animals, some on the verge of extinction and also all of the beautiful landforms it possesses a name that come to mind is the Everglades National Park located in the southern section of the Florida peninsula. The Everglades National park covers about 1,506,539 acres; it is the third biggest National Park in the United States, the first biggest is Death Valley National Park and second is Yellowstone National Park. It seems as though the Everglades National Park has been inhabited for 10,000 years or maybe 20,000 about 4,000 years ago the Everglades National Park was abundant in food supplies like fish, shellfish, plants and also in land animals.…
This report is about Denali National park in the state of Alaska .In it is included why and when the park was renamed. It also contains the effects of this particular park, as well as the entire national park system, on wildlife study and conservation.…
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