Everglades An Environmental History

Name: Everglades An Environmental History
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ISBN: 9780813018270

ISBN-10: 0813018277

ISBN-13: 9780813018270

Edition: 2000 (Reprint)

Authors: David McCally, Raymond Arsenault, Gary R. Mormino

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This work, aimed at general readers and environmentalists alike, offers a discussion of the formation, development and history of the Everglades, considered by many to be the most endangered ecosystem in North America.

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Publication date: 10/31/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 0.792



List of Tables and Figures


Foreword



Preface



A Changing Landscape


Rock


Water


Fire


The Mature System



Changing Peoples


Paleo and Archaic Indians


The Calusa


The Spanish



The Derelict Land


The Making of a Derelict Land, 1513-1714


The Custard Apple Swamp


The Everglades Trough


The Miami Rocklands


The Mangrove Fringe


The Derelict System



Drainage


Nineteenth-Century Prelude


The Progressive Drainage Effort, 1903-1913


Denouement



Drainage Reconsidered and Pioneer Settlement, 1912-1924


Drainage Reconsidered, 1912-1913


Pioneer Settlement, 1883-1924



Perfecting the Developmental System


Drainage in the Era of the Randolph Plan, 1913-1928


The Corps of Engineers, 1926-1947


A Too-Dry Land, 1938-1948


Comprehensive Water Control Begins in 1948



The Fruits of Development


Soil Productivity


Land Consolidation, 1920-1940


Labor


Everglades Agricultural Area, 1950 to the Present


Epilogue: Restoration


Notes


Bibliography


Index