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Everglades National Park

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Everglades national park, located at the southern tip of Florida, was the first national park created specifically to protect not scenery, but one of the most unique and endangered ecosystem, the world largest marshland. Although the water appears at first still, it actually is part of a river, moving 100 feet a day, a few inches to a few feet deep, and 50 miles wide, flowing from Lake Okeechobee into the Gulf of Florida. The cycle of this water, where six dry winter months alternate with six wet summer months, is essential for the survival of the rich and complex web of life of the park, but has been disturbed by development and canals upstream.

Most visitors are justifiably drawn to the dynamic inhabitants of the park, the wading birds and alligators. Nowhere else in North America are the birds that diverse, abundant and easy to observe and photograph. The plant life is no less interesting, in its unique mix of temperate and tropical species. The saw-grass prairie, with its stands of cypress, is progressively replaced by mangroves as the water gets more salty near the Florida Bay. The rock bed beneath the Everglades, only 6000 to 8000 year old, is one of the youngest on the continent, surfacing only since the Ice Age, and nowhere higher than 8 feet. A difference of elevation of just a few feet give rise to small islands called hammocks, which are a whole different world from the wet prairie, and are densely forested with tropical trees such as gunbo limbo and mahogany.

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Slash pines silhouettes at sunrise. Everglades National Park (color) Sawgrass prairie, pines, and clouds at sunrise, near Mahogany Hammock. Everglades National Park (color) Pine trees and fog at sunrise. Everglades National Park (color) Cypress at sunrise, near Pa-hay-okee. Everglades National Park (color) Cypress and sun rays, sunrise, near Pa-hay-okee. Everglades National Park (color) Marsh near Ahinga trail, late afternoon. Everglades National Park (color) Slash pines and saw-palmetttos, remnants of Florida's flatwoods. Everglades National Park (color) Eco pond, morning. Everglades National Park (color) Swamp lilly (Crinum americanum) and sawgrass (Cladium jamaicense). Everglades National Park (color) Stormy sunset at Pine Glades Lake. Everglades National Park (color) Red mangroves on West Lake. Everglades National Park (color) Red mangroves. Everglades National Park (color) Tropical forest, Snake Bight trail. Everglades National Park (color) Peeling bark of the Gumbo Limbo tree. Everglades National Park (color) Bald Cypress reflexions near Pa-hay-okee. Everglades National Park (color) Cypress at Pa-hay-okee, dusk. Everglades National Park (color) Yellow carnivorous flower and cypress. Everglades National Park (color) Bromeliad and cypress inside a dome. Everglades National Park (color) Mangroves several miles inland near Parautis pond, sunrise. Everglades National Park (color) Fallen mangrove tree in Florida Bay, sunrise. Everglades National Park (color) Mangroves and low islands in Florida Bay, dusk. Everglades National Park (color) Clearing storm on Florida Bay seen from the Keys, sunset. Everglades National Park (color) Ahinga. Everglades National Park (color) Tri-colored heron. Everglades National Park (color) Great Blue Heron. Everglades National Park (color) Alligator eye emerging from swamp. Everglades National Park (color) Alligator raising head. Everglades National Park (color) Pineland environment at sunrise, near Mahogany Hammock. Everglades National Park (color) Slash pine trees, sawgrass prairie and fog at sunrise. Everglades National Park (color) Slash pines in fog near Mahogany Hammock, sunrise. Everglades National Park (color) Foggy sunrise with pines. Everglades National Park (color) Sawgrass prairie environment with distant pinelands near Mahogany Hammock. Everglades National Park (color) Pink clouds and pines at sunrise. Everglades National Park (color) Slash pines against bright sunrise sky. Everglades National Park (color) Sunrise with pine trees and ground fog over meadow. Everglades National Park (color) Sun rising behind group of pine trees. Everglades National Park (color) Sun rising behind group of pine trees with fog on the ground. Everglades National Park (color) Slash pine and sun. Everglades National Park (color) Sun emerging from behind cloud and pine group. Everglades National Park (color) Sawgrass prairie and distant pines near Mahogany Hammock, morning. Everglades National Park (color) Sawgrass (Cladium jamaicense). Everglades National Park (color) Sawgrass (Cladium jamaicense). Everglades National Park (color) Sawgrass ecosystem with prairie and distant pines, near Mahogany Hammock. Everglades National Park (color) Sawgrass prairie and slash pines near Mahogany Hammock. Everglades National Park (color) Freshwater marsh with aquatic plants and sawgrass near Ahinga trail, late afternoon. Everglades National Park (color) Eco pond with birds in distant trees, evening. Everglades National Park (color) Eco pond, morning. Everglades National Park (color) Rock Reef Pass, elevation 3 feet. Everglades National Park (color) Close-up of Gumbo Limbo bark. Everglades National Park (color) Young pines. Everglades National Park (color) Peeling bark pattern of a Gumbo Limbo tree. Everglades National Park (color) Flower. Everglades National Park (color) Sunset with dark clouds, Pine Glades Lake. Everglades National Park (color) Stormy sunset and pine trees, Pine Glades Lake. Everglades National Park (color) Dawn on marsh and sawgrass prairie. Everglades National Park (color) Dusk at Pine Glades Lake, with blured water and clouds. Everglades National Park (color) Sky and Pine Glades Lake, dusk. Everglades National Park (color) Pine Glades Lake, dusk. Everglades National Park (color) Bare cypress Cypress and sun rays, sunrise. Everglades National Park (color) Cypress silhouettes at sunrise. Everglades National Park (color) Cypress trunks against sunrise sky, near Pa-hay-okee. Everglades National Park (color) Cypress and swamp at Pa-hay-okee. Everglades National Park (color) Pond Cypress (Taxodium ascendens). Everglades National Park (color) Bare cypress in marsh at Pa-hay-okee. Everglades National Park (color) Pond Cypress reflexions near Pa-hay-okee. Everglades National Park (color) Cypress trees reflected in pond. Everglades National Park (color) Cypress and sawgrass near Pa-hay-okee, morning. Everglades National Park (color) Pond Cypress (Taxodium ascendens) near Pa-hay-okee, morning. Everglades National Park (color)