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A 5 page paper that argues the point that industry and an expanding population have done considerable damage to Florida's Everglades and the ecosystem that it supports. Emphasis is placed on the fact that the Everglades are being crowded by agricultural interests to the north and urban interests to the east, and the diversion of water from the rain forest to support these two interests is disrupting its natural cycle and leaving it short of needed water supplies. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_LCEglade.doc
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Majestic and magnificent, Floridas Everglades consists not of useless swampland as popular opinion has in past years labeled it, but of a vast sheet of imperceptibly moving water that for
centuries has fed itself and the multitude of creatures within it. Centuries that may end with the upcoming twenty-first, for Floridas Everglades is a natural rain forest that is
slowly dying of thirst. "Time has just about run out for everyone here, both man and beast," noted Everglades native Loren G. "Totch"
in his best selling book entitled "Totch - A Life in the Everglades" (Totch PG; Mansell 1-2). In the early Florida accent known as "cracker", Totch adds the sentiment
"theyre killin it, bit by bit" (Totch PG; Mansell 1-2). In convincing President Eisenhower to designate 1.5 million acres of Floridas Everglades as a national protected park in 1947, noted
conservationist Marjorie Stoneman Douglas called the area the "river of grass" (Smith 53-54). This name is not new to the Florida Everglades - the Seminole Indians have known if
from ancient times as "pa-hay-okee", which translates into English as "river of grass" Mansell 1-2). The coming of man has altered the dimensions and course of this vast natural
"river", however, and it is man that now threatens its continued existence. We suggest that the student look into how in its original state, the Everglades was a huge area
spanning fifty miles from shore to shore and running a distance of three hundred miles from what is now Orlando in the north part of Florida to the southernmost tip
of that coastal state (Smith 53-54; Parker 09A). Depth of this great river varied from only a few inches at its shallowest to three feet at its deepest (Smith
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