Okeechobee

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…

believes that, “God puts circumstances in all of our lives and expects us to use them to glorify Him and to serve others.” So, in 2010 when God placed a burden on her heart to open a free, Christ-centered clinic for the lower-income, uninsured of Okeechobee County, she was ready. Nicole was born with two holes in her heart and suffered from congestive heart failure before she was a year old. Because her family had no health insurance, Nicole would not have been able to have the life-saving heart…

known as the “fishing capital of the world.” and Florida will not have that title anymore is the dumping and burning of sugar fields. The farming of the sugar cane fields have started to pollute the surrounding area including the Everglades, Lake Okeechobee, and the reef system off south Florida. For the fishing industries in the state of Florida, those reefs, beaches, canals, lakes, and runoff levees are the sources that drive industry. Hundreds and hundreds of commercial fisherman and…

span around 5,000 sq km. The area experiences seasonal weather, with a wet and hot summer and relatively dry and mild winters. To the east of the Everglades is the urban Miami metropolitan area, with around 6 million residents. To the north is Lake Okeechobee, the main source of water that flows into the Everglades. Between the lake and the Everglades is a rich area of peat soils that is used mostly for agriculture of plants like sugar cane, corn, vegetables, rice, and sod.…

On April 12 a young 10 year old boy who has autism was arrested at Okeechobee Achievement Academy in Florida for “allegedly kicking and scratching the educational assistant who was working with him”. The Washington Post reported that “After the arrest, the boy was taken to a juvenile detention facility where he spent the night. His mother offered to go with officers in the police car, but they refused her to go with.” Okeechobee County schools to charge him with “battery on a school board…

#1 Penal codes, also known as criminal codes, are a “collection of criminal statutes” that specifically define criminal activities in their jurisdictions and establishes the penalties enforced on those criminal acts (Cheeseman, 2013, p. 132). “Each state has criminal penal codes that list and defines the activities that are illegal in that state” (Cheeseman, 2013, p. 132). For example, the state of Kentucky defines theft as a Class D felony when the value of the stolen property is more than…

Hurricane Katrina was one of the worst hurricanes in the history of the United States. The hurricane is stilled ranked the third of all hurricanes. Katrina killed at least 1,245 people. Katrina has been the deadliest hurricane since 1928, Okeechobee hurricane. Katrina done about 108 billion damage, 4* more damage than hurricane Andrew, in 1992 in the United States. Katrina originated over the Bahamas on August 23 from the interaction between a tropical wave and the Tropical Depression Ten. The…

The company U.S. Sugar and Florida Crystals, together referred to as “Big Sugar”, produce raw sugar from sugar cane farming and sugar mill company. They are the only producers that produce certified organic sugar that are completely made in the USA. This company needs to be more aware of the Clean Water Act (1972) which establishes the allowable water pollutant levels emitted by US businesses. In an article, Angry About Florida's Ruined Waters, Fishermen Unite Against Big Sugar, it discusses…

Lake Okeechobee in the Florida everglades has been polluted from all the agricultural land that has replaced much if the everglades. Farmers on these plots of land have been dumping agricultural runoff that is full phosphorus in the lake. The increase in these…

The first known people to have lived in the Everglades were known as the Calusa Indians. They lived in this area for more than three hundred years before us. Even though the Indians lived here first, the first permanent residents were the families of William Smith Allen and John Weeks. These two families settled down there not to long after the Civil War. Both were farmers that had to live off of the land. The Everglades was remote and not many people lived there until Barron G. Collier. He made…