The Everglades - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Everglades write by David McCally. This book was released on 2000-10-01. The Everglades available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discusses the formation, development, and history of the Everglades
Everglades Patrol
Everglades Patrol - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Everglades Patrol write by Tom Shirley. This book was released on 2012-09-03. Everglades Patrol available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As law enforcement officer and game manager for the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Lt. Tom Shirley was the law in one of the last true frontiers in the nation--the Florida Everglades. In Everglades Patrol, Shirley shares the stories from his beat--an ecosystem larger than the state of Rhode Island. His vivid narrative includes dangerous tales of hunting down rogue gladesmen and gators and airboat chases through the wetlands in search of illegal hunters and moonshiners. During his thirty-year career (1955-1985), Shirley saw the Glades go from frontier wilderness to "ruination" at the hands of the Army Corps of Engineers. He watched as dikes cut off the water flow and controlled floods submerged islands that had supported man and animals for 3,000 years, killing much of the wildlife he was sworn to protect.
The Everglades
The Everglades - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Everglades write by Anne McCrary Sullivan. This book was released on 2021-10-15. The Everglades available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Everglades National Park’s mangrove ecosystem, extending over 230,000 acres of south Florida, is the most expansive in the western hemisphere and the largest continuous system of mangroves in the world. Most of this mangrove area is remote, accessible only by boat, complex and difficult to navigate. In The Everglades: Stories of Grit and Spirit from the Mangrove Wilderness we hear 21 stories from people who have ventured into this wilderness—for scientific work, artistic work, search-and-rescue missions, for personal renewal, or for the pure adventure of it. They tell stories of manatee rescue, shark encounters, storms and strandings, stories of environmental value and threat, wild beauty, personal enchantment and spirit. Together these stories reveal a world beyond the reach of most travelers. They also offer support and offer enticement to the intrepid few who may venture “out there” and return with stories of their own.
Death in the Everglades
Death in the Everglades - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death in the Everglades write by Stuart B. McIver. This book was released on 2018-12. Death in the Everglades available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Guy Bradley's colorful life and violent death have always seemed the stuff of myth. . . . Death in the Everglades is both compelling history and a heart-tugging drama."--Audubon "An eye-opening, informative account of the rise and demise of the cruel plume hunting trade and of Guy Bradley's heroic dedication to protect a beautiful and valuable natural resource: the egrets and flamingoes, roseate spoonbills and herons that still grace the Glades and our shorelines."--Miami Herald "Rescues from obscurity a key chapter in the history of American environmentalism. . . . With great finesse, McIver evokes Bradley's tumultuous world, chronicles the pitched battle to save wild birds, and resurrects a true folk hero."--Booklist "Reminds us that Glades once was so wild that armed men quaked with fear."--St. Petersburg Times Guy Bradley, born in Chicago in 1870, was killed in 1905 only three years into his tenure as game warden in a south Florida that was still very much a frontier. His murderer, never prosecuted, was a one-eyed former Civil War sharpshooter who made his living supplying exotic plumage for women's hats. At the time, an ounce of feathers was worth more than an ounce of gold. Bradley's death sent shock waves across America and helped give impetus to the burgeoning environmental movement.
The Everglades
The Everglades - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Everglades write by . This book was released on . The Everglades available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
