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Download or read book Minutes of the Proceedings of the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund of the State of Florida written by Florida. Trustees of Internal Improvement Fund and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report of the Secretary Florida Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund written by Florida. Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Draining the Swamp Southern Style written by Bruce D. Epperson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-02-26 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1912, a Congressional committee met to investigate allegations that the Secretary of Agriculture had suppressed a report by J. O. Wright on drainage in the Florida Everglades. The following seven months of committee hearings uncovered a veritable horror-show of corruption, self-dealing, misuse of government personnel and property for private gain, the tarring of reputations in order to protect high-level officials, and outright blackmail within the Department of Agriculture and the state governments of Florida and North Carolina. The "Wright Report Incident" is most commonly understood in its connection to the Everglades, and few histories have included its effects on the North Carolina Pocosin wetland and other coastal plain swamps. This book seeks fills that gap. It details the timeline, intricate politics, and webs of corruption that make up the story of the Wright Incident and, specifically, its connection to land management practices in coastal North Carolina that continue to impact the industries of the state almost 100 years later.

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 1696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book From Swamp to Wetland written by Chris Wilhelm and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles the creation of Everglades National Park, the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States. This effort, which spanned 1928 to 1958, was of central importance to the later emergence of modern environmentalism. Prior to the park’s creation, the Everglades was seen as a reviled and useless swamp, unfit for typical recreational or development projects. The region’s unusual makeup also made it an unlikely candidate to become a national park, as it had none of the sweeping scenic vistas or geological monuments found in other nationally protected areas. Park advocates drew on new ideas concerning the value of biota and ecology, the importance of wilderness, and the need to protect habitats, marine ecosystems, and plant life to redefine the Everglades. Using these ideas, the Everglades began to be recognized as an ecologically valuable and fragile wetland—and thus a region in need of protective status. While these new ideas foreshadowed the later emergence of modern environmentalism, tourism and the economic desires of Florida’s business and political elites also impacted the park’s future. These groups saw the Everglades’ unique biology and ecology as a foundation on which to build a tourism empire. They connected the Everglades to Florida’s modernization and commercialization, hoping the park would help facilitate the state’s transformation into the Sunshine State. Political conservatives welcomed federal power into Florida so long as it brought economic growth. Yet, even after the park’s creation, conservative landowners successfully fought to limit the park and saw it as a threat to their own economic freedoms. Today, a series of levees on the park’s eastern border marks the line between urban and protected areas, but development into these areas threatens the park system. Rising sea levels caused by global warming are another threat to the future of the park. The battle to save the swamp’s biodiversity continues, and Everglades Park stands at the center of ongoing restoration efforts.

Download or read book Report of the Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund for the Period Beginning and Ending written by Florida. Trustees of Internal Improvement Fund and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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