Florida
Everglades National Park
The Everglades are not a swampy wilderness at the edge of Florida but a vast, shallow water system whose flow once linked Lake Okeechobee to mangrove estuaries. This guide explains how centimetres of elevation create different habitats, how Indigenous communities lived within the wetlands, how drainage and plume hunting damaged them, and why modern conservation is largely an attempt to restore water movement rather than freeze a landscape in place.
Stories in Everglades National Park
- Royal Palm and Anhinga Trail — The First Protected Core
- Pa-hay-okee Overlook — The “River of Grass” Is Mostly About Flow
- Mahogany Hammock — A Few Centimetres Can Make an Island
- Pinelands Trail — Fire Keeps the Forest Open
- Shark Valley Observation Tower — Seeing the Water-Control Problem
- Nine Mile Pond — Fresh Water Meets the Coastal System
- Flamingo — Plume Hunting, Settlement and the Edge of Florida Bay
- Nike Missile Site HM-69 — The Cold War in a Wetland