See the stars in the sky at Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park
Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park is located at 33104 NW 192nd Ave, Okeechobee, FL 34972.
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Kissimmee Praire Preserve State Park
Join me as I explore a new Florida State Park. This was my first trip to Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park. It will not be my last. It was fantastic if you like old Florida. This park is located in the middle of nowhere, which is what makes it so nice. Check out the web site below to see what makes this park so special.
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A Night at a Certified Dark Sky Park - Kissimmee Prairie Preserve
We spent 24 hours at Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park, a certified dark sky park in Okeechobee County, Florida.
Florida Prairie: A Deer in the High Grass of The Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park
The Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park is only 2 miles from my land here at Florida Prairie. You can find all kinds of wildlife, and you can ride your mountain bike through the park and see wildlife all over the place!
Florida Prairie: A View from Camp FOAHA's Observation Tower
Camp FOAHA located in Florida Prairie has a two-story tall observation tower, great for sightseeing. You can see the Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park, because the camp is adjacent to the preserve. At nighttime, you can see tons of stars! Perfect for astronomers to come and stargaze. You can see a beautiful lush landscape for about 5 miles in every direction.
Gobler Ridge Trail at Lake Kissimmee State Park
Good Morning Lake Okeechobee
The Rim Canal (Lake Okeechobee) at Rardin Park in Pahokee. It's very peaceful at the BIG LAKE and this shows the sights and sounds of the Lake in the morning.
Observation Tower at Lake Kissimmee State Park
The West 2019 Part 2: Mobile Bay Ferry, Dauphin Island, and USS Alabama
I return to southern Alabama to continue where I left off. I take the Mobile Bay ferry, wander around Dauphin Island and then go to Mobile to visit the USS Alabama.
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Restoring the Everglades: Understanding the Past is the Key to the Future
Learn about how data from sediment core informs restoration in the Everglades. U.S. Geological Survey Research Geologist Dr. Lynn Wingard discusses what paleoecology has revealed about natural ecosystem processes and the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP).
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1,100 miles end-to-end is what it takes to thru-hike the Florida Trail, Florida's own National Scenic Trail. Here's a preview of what you'll see and experience when walking when northbound from the southern terminus at Oasis Visitor Center, Big Cypress National Preserve. There are three route choices along the way; this video follows the traditional choices of west around Lake Okeechobee, east around Orlando, ending at Fort Pickens, Gulf Islands National Seashore. The Florida Trail is America's only long distance hiking destination for the winter; most thru-hikers start the first week of January.
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(1) A swamp buggy may be operated on a public road, street, or highway if the local governmental entity, as defined in s. 334.03, having jurisdiction over the public road, street, or highway, has designated it for use by swamp buggies. Upon determining that swamp buggies may safely operate on or cross such public road, street, or highway, the local governmental entity shall post appropriate signs or otherwise inform the public that the operation of swamp buggies is allowed. This authorization does not apply to the State Highway System, as defined in s. 334.03. However, a swamp buggy may be operated on a part of the State Highway System only to cross that portion of the State Highway System which intersects a county road or municipal street that has been designated for use by swamp buggies if the Department of Transportation has reviewed and approved the location and design of the crossing and any traffic control devices needed for safety purposes.
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Kissimmee River April 2015 Ramp to Bombing Range
Kissimmee River April 2015 Ramp to Bombing Range. This is part one of our ride up the Kissimmee River to River Ranch. We stop at Avon Park Bombing range for refreshments before heading to River Ranch Resort.
Everglades National Park | Wikipedia audio article
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Everglades National Park
00:02:21 1 Geography
00:03:02 1.1 Geology
00:05:00 1.2 Hydrography
00:06:03 1.3 Climate
00:07:06 2 Ecosystems
00:08:04 2.1 Freshwater sloughs and marl prairies
00:10:54 2.2 Tropical hardwood hammocks
00:12:46 2.3 Pineland
00:14:53 2.4 Cypress and mangrove
00:17:51 2.5 Coastal lowlands
00:18:51 2.6 Marine and estuarine
00:20:29 3 Human history
00:20:38 3.1 Native peoples
00:23:47 3.2 American settlements
00:25:13 3.3 Land development and conservation
00:29:36 4 Park history
00:34:40 4.1 Restoration efforts
00:38:12 4.2 Park economics
00:39:14 5 Activities
00:40:39 5.1 Trails
00:42:21 5.2 Camping and recreation
00:44:00 5.3 Dark skies site
00:44:29 6 Threats to the park and ecology
00:44:39 6.1 Diversion and quality of water
00:46:46 6.2 Urban encroachment
00:47:58 6.3 Endangered and threatened animals
00:50:43 6.4 Drought, fire, and rising sea levels
00:52:08 6.5 Non-native species
00:54:55 7 See also
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Everglades National Park is an American national park that protects the southern twenty percent of the original Everglades in Florida. The park is the largest tropical wilderness in the United States, and the largest wilderness of any kind east of the Mississippi River. An average of one million people visit the park each year. Everglades is the third-largest national park in the contiguous United States after Death Valley and Yellowstone. UNESCO declared the Everglades & Dry Tortugas Biosphere Reserve in 1976, and listed the park as a World Heritage Site in 1979, while the Ramsar Convention included the park on its list of Wetlands of International Importance in 1987. Everglades is one of only three locations in the world to appear on all three lists.Most national parks preserve unique geographic features; Everglades National Park was the first created to protect a fragile ecosystem. The Everglades are a network of wetlands and forests fed by a river flowing 0.25 miles (0.40 km) per day out of Lake Okeechobee, southwest into Florida Bay. The park is the most significant breeding ground for tropical wading birds in North America and contains the largest mangrove ecosystem in the Western Hemisphere. Thirty-six threatened or protected species inhabit the park, including the Florida panther, the American crocodile, and the West Indian manatee, along with 350 species of birds, 300 species of fresh and saltwater fish, 40 species of mammals, and 50 species of reptiles. The majority of South Florida's fresh water, which is stored in the Biscayne Aquifer, is recharged in the park.Humans have lived for thousands of years in or around the Everglades. Plans arose in 1882 to drain the wetlands and develop the land for agricultural and residential use. As the 20th century progressed, water flow from Lake Okeechobee was increasingly controlled and diverted to enable explosive growth of the South Florida metropolitan area. The park was established in 1934, to protect the quickly vanishing Everglades, and dedicated in 1947, as major canal building projects were initiated across South Florida. The ecosystems in Everglades National Park have suffered significantly from human activity, and restoration of the Everglades is a politically charged issue in South Florida.
MaximsNewsNetwork: U.S. EVERGLADES on WORLD HERITAGE DANGER LIST (UNESCO)
MaximsNewsNetwork: 30 July 2010 - UNESCO: The World Heritage Committee, holding its 34th session inscribed the Everglades National Park (United States) on the List of World Heritage in Danger, because of serious and continuing degradation of its aquatic ecosystem.
The inscription was made at the request of the United States (US). It's the second time the Everglades has been included on the List of World Heritage in Danger. It was first inscribed in 1993 following damage caused by Hurricane Andrew and a marked deterioration in water flows and quality resulting from agricultural and urban development. It was removed from the Danger List in 2007, in recognition of efforts to restore the Park and its wider ecosystem.
However, the degradation of the site has continued. Water inflows have been reduced by up to 60 percent and nutrient pollution increased to the point where the site is showing significant signs of eutrophication, loss of marine habitat and a subsequent decline in marine species.
The US also requested that Experts from UNESCO's World Heritage Centre and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) visit the property in 2010 to evaluate its state of conservation and assist in the development of a desired state of conservation with a view to removing the property from the Danger List as quickly as possible.
The World Heritage Committee commended the State Party's initiative in requesting the inscription of the site on the List of Sites in Danger, and encouraged the US to continue corrective measures to restore and preserve the property.
The Everglades, at the southern tip of Florida, contains the largest mangrove ecosystem in the western hemisphere, the largest continuous stand of saw grass prairie and the most significant breeding ground for wading birds in North America.
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Irma May Destroy Florida's Everglades
As Hurricane Irma rakes the west coast of Florida, all eyes are on the cities and human lives in the storm’s path. But Irma is also hammering the Florida Everglades, and the scientists familiar with this fragile ecosystem are concerned the storm could deliver a devastating blow.
“They’re losing out,” said Hal Wanless, a geologist at the University of Miami, when asked what’s been happening to the Everglades’ coastal marshes and mangrove swamps in the wake of recent, powerful hurricanes. According to Wanless, a trifecta of urban development, extreme weather, and climate change has eroded the Everglades’ resilience. The system, he said, “is getting set back, it’s having trouble keeping up.”
A sixty-mile wide river of sawgrass and mangrove forests that used to stretch all the way from Orlando to the Florida Keys, the Everglades is an internationally-recognized ecological treasure, home to alligators, panthers, manatees, crocodiles, more than 300 species of birds, and hundreds of rare or endemic plants. Its very existence is both predicated on water and existentially threatened by it—but the threat has been dramatically amplified over the past century, by unnatural drainage and development, and by unnatural changes to Earth’s climate.
In order make South Florida livable, people had to drain the swamp. That effort began in earnest in the mid 20th century, with the diking and re-routing of Lake Okeechobee, a sprawling pool of freshwater that used to feed water all the way down the sawgrass prairies of the Everglades to Florida Bay. With the construction of thousands of miles of levees and canals, humans were able to tame, contain, and re-direct the lake, draining hundreds of thousands of acres of land directly south of it for sugar cultivation. The coastal floodplains of South Florida, meanwhile, were made suitable for highways, golf courses, and skyscrapers, setting the stage for a massive population boom.
Roughly half of the Everglades has been drained or paved over since developers decided to conquer the land early US explorers described as “hideous” and “abominable.” What’s left of the formerly formidable ecosystem is far too dry, and plagued by a laundry list of ailments, from seagrass die-offs in Florida Bay when salinity levels get too high in the summer, to toxic algae blooms along Treasure Coast when too much agricultural effluent is sent spewing out of Lake O., to raging wildfires across critical habitats that used to be fully-fledged wetlands.
Compounding the problems caused by the draining of the Everglades is the threat of human-caused climate change. South Florida, which sits on porous limestone substrate often likened to Swiss cheese, faces some of the highest rates of sea level rise in the world, and as the ocean plows further into its freshwater-adapted marshes, it’s weakening them even more. The region has seen about foot of sea level rise since the 1930s, with perhaps another three feet to go by the end of the century.
Now, to add insult to injury, we have Irma, the strongest storm to make landfall in the United States since Hurricane Katrina, and one that a growing chorus of scientists are saying isn’t quite natural, either. While the extent of the storm’s impact on the Everglades won’t be known for some time, Wanless said that past storms, particularly Hurricane Andrew, which struck South Florida as a Category 5 in 1992, can help set our expectations.
It was in wake of that storm that the United National put the Everglades on the list of World Heritage sites in Danger.
“Andrew put down 80,000 acres of mangrove swamp,” Wanless said, noting that these swamps, which hold about half of their biomass in their massive root systems, literally build land out of the water. As soon as they start to decay, that land disappears.
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Geography and ecology of the Everglades | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:01 1 Shaping processes of ecosystems
00:03:33 1.1 Water
00:07:34 1.2 Geology
00:10:36 1.3 Fire
00:13:07 2 Ecosystem characteristics
00:14:49 2.1 Sawgrass marsh
00:16:36 2.2 Freshwater sloughs
00:17:51 2.3 Wet prairie
00:19:59 2.4 Tropical hardwood hammock
00:23:43 2.4.1 Bayheads and willowheads
00:24:48 3 Flatwoods and the Atlantic Coastal Ridge
00:26:01 3.1 Pine rockland
00:30:17 4 The Big Cypress
00:32:38 4.1 Cypress head
00:35:17 5 Mangroves and coastal prairie
00:36:36 5.1 Mangroves
00:39:42 6 Florida Bay
00:43:01 7 Biodiversity
00:47:35 8 Human impact
00:47:45 8.1 Development
00:48:57 8.2 Invasive species
00:50:02 9 See also
00:50:19 10 Notes and references
00:50:29 11 Bibliography
00:50:38 12 External links
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The geography and ecology of the Everglades involve the complex elements affecting the natural environment throughout the southern region of the U.S. state of Florida. Before drainage, the Everglades were an interwoven mesh of marshes and prairies covering 4,000 square miles (10,000 km2). The Everglades is simultaneously a vast watershed that has historically extended from Lake Okeechobee 100 miles (160 km) south to Florida Bay (around one-third of the southern Florida peninsula), and many interconnected ecosystems within a geographic boundary. It is such a unique meeting of water, land, and climate that the use of either singular or plural to refer to the Everglades is appropriate. When Marjory Stoneman Douglas wrote her definitive description of the region in 1947, she used the metaphor River of Grass to explain the blending of water and plant life.
Although sawgrass and sloughs are the enduring geographical icons of the Everglades, other ecosystems are just as vital, and the borders marking them are subtle or nonexistent. Pinelands and tropical hardwood hammocks are located throughout the sloughs; the trees, rooted in soil inches above the peat, marl, or water, support a variety of wildlife. The oldest and tallest trees are cypresses, whose roots are specially adapted to grow underwater for months at a time. The Big Cypress Swamp is well known for its 500-year-old cypresses, though cypress domes can appear throughout the Everglades. As the fresh water from Lake Okeechobee makes its way to Florida Bay, it meets salt water from the Gulf of Mexico; mangrove forests grow in this transitional zone, providing nursery and nesting conditions for many species of birds, fish, and invertebrates. The marine environment of Florida Bay is also considered part of the Everglades because its sea grasses and aquatic life are attracted to the constant discharge of fresh water.
These ecological systems are always changing due to environmental factors. Geographic features such as the Western Flatwoods, Eastern Flatwoods, and the Atlantic Coastal Ridge affect drainage patterns. Geologic elements, climate, and the frequency of storms and fire are formative processes for the Everglades. They help to sustain and transform the ecosystems in the Shark River Valley, Big Cypress Swamp, coastal areas and mangrove forests. Ecosystems have been described as both fragile and resilient. Minor fluctuations in water levels have far-reaching consequences for many plant and animal species, and the system cycles and pulses with each change.
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