The Florida's Everglades is the first national park made for it’s astounding native animals, plants and environment but, not for it’s scenery.
It was the first national park created to save its environment.
Ernest F. Coe convinced the government to make the Everglades a national park.
The ruff sawgrass usually doesn’t hurt the alligators.
There are low areas channel water that comes from Lake okeechobee.
Theses shallow areas cover most of the Everglades, ,making it hard from boats to drive through.
There are 1,000 species of plants in the Everglades and sawgrass is one of them.
Sawgrass has tiny teeth along the edge of it, that’s where it gets it’s name from.
⅓ of the Everglades is navigated by boat which is very hard to avoid damaging the habitats of …show more content…
As it flows into the Everglades, it chains into the Gulf of Mexico and Florida Bay.
As some of the water flows into the bay it soaks into limestone rock under the ground. Then purifies the water, making it the southeastern drinking water.
There are sixteen different species of wading birds that live in the Everglades.
All of these birds have long legs for catching their food.
White Ibis is found the most often in the everglades and unlike many other birds in the Everglades it eats many crayfish.
The white bird has a curved, long beak that helps it get through the mud to find fish.
Ancient Egyptians thought that the bird was going to be the reincarnation of Thorth, their God.
Wood stork is a larger bird than Ibis.
The bird eats in an unusual way. It shuffles it feet and puts it’s head in the water. When the fish swim away from the feet of the bird they run into it’s beak, and the bird’s sensitive beak grabs the fish in about a fraction of a second!
People state that this bird is the fastest animal in the Everglades. Unfortunately, the wood stork is listed as an endangered species and its status was down to
It was the first national park created to save its environment.
Ernest F. Coe convinced the government to make the Everglades a national park.
The ruff sawgrass usually doesn’t hurt the alligators.
There are low areas channel water that comes from Lake okeechobee.
Theses shallow areas cover most of the Everglades, ,making it hard from boats to drive through.
There are 1,000 species of plants in the Everglades and sawgrass is one of them.
Sawgrass has tiny teeth along the edge of it, that’s where it gets it’s name from.
⅓ of the Everglades is navigated by boat which is very hard to avoid damaging the habitats of …show more content…
As it flows into the Everglades, it chains into the Gulf of Mexico and Florida Bay.
As some of the water flows into the bay it soaks into limestone rock under the ground. Then purifies the water, making it the southeastern drinking water.
There are sixteen different species of wading birds that live in the Everglades.
All of these birds have long legs for catching their food.
White Ibis is found the most often in the everglades and unlike many other birds in the Everglades it eats many crayfish.
The white bird has a curved, long beak that helps it get through the mud to find fish.
Ancient Egyptians thought that the bird was going to be the reincarnation of Thorth, their God.
Wood stork is a larger bird than Ibis.
The bird eats in an unusual way. It shuffles it feet and puts it’s head in the water. When the fish swim away from the feet of the bird they run into it’s beak, and the bird’s sensitive beak grabs the fish in about a fraction of a second!
People state that this bird is the fastest animal in the Everglades. Unfortunately, the wood stork is listed as an endangered species and its status was down to