Everglades Wildguide
George JC and Drawings by Betty Fraser. 1972. Everglades Wildguide. National Park Service, Department of the Interior. Washington, D.C.
This book has been written to help the reader understand the ecological complexity of Everglades National Park. Everglades National Park is to most Americans an Eden where birds, mammals, reptiles, and orchids find sanctuary. Sunshine sparkles on sloughs teeming with fish, and on marshes where wildflowers bloom the year around; it shines on tree islands where birds roost and deer bed down. In this semitropical garden of plant-and-animal communities, every breeze-touched glade, every cluster of trees is a separate world in which are tucked yet smaller worlds of such complexity that even ecologists have not learned all their intricate relationships. This book has been written to help you see how the many pieces of this ecological puzzle fit together to form a complex, ever-changing, closely woven web of plants, animals, rock, soil, sun, water, and air.
- Type
- Book
- Authors
- George, Jean; Drawings by Betty Fraser
- Date of Issue
- 1972
- Publisher
- National Park Service, Department of the Interior
- Units
- EVER , HIST
- Keywords
- Alligators, Amphibians, Animals, Big Cypress, Birds, Cultural Resources, ehistory, everglades, Florida Bay, History, Indians, Mammals, mangroves, Plants, Reptiles, Subtropical, Wildguide