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Definition: Everglades |
EvergladesNoun1. A large subtropical swamp in southern Florida that is noted for its wildlife. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Everglades" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1902. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Florida Everglades is a tropical marshland located in the southwest portion of the state of Florida.
Overview
The Everglades extends from Lake Okeechobee on the north, to the Florida Straits on the south. It has been called the River of Grass because there is a slow flow of water from the lake south and the principal plant is the sedge known as sawgrass. The higher points in this extremely flat area are covered with trees.
Some 50% of the original Everglades have been lost to agriculture. Most of the rest is now protected in a number of national parks. Water from the Everglades is still used as a water supply for major cities in the areas such as Miami.
An Anhinga perched on the trail boardwalk railing
Everglades National Park
Everglades National Park preserves the southern portion of the Everglades, but represents only 20% of the original wetlands. It covers 1.5 million acres and is a World Heritage Site. The only highway access is the State Road SR9336 running 38 miles from Florida City to the coast at Flamingo. Excluding the main Visitor Center and some smaller park facilities, there is no development in the park.
There are a number of car parks and trails in the Park, of which the most famous is the Anhinga trail. This trail allows very close approach to the birds such as herons and the Anhinga. The latter birds will perch on the rails of the boardwalk.
Fauna
Specialities of the park include Caribbean Flamingo at its only regular North American site, usually near Flamingo, Short-tailed Hawk and Smooth-billed Ani. Other wading birds such as herons, egrets, Wood Stork, Roseate Spoonbill and ibises are abundant.
The raptors include the rare Snail Kite and the very common Red-shouldered Hawk and Osprey.
From Flamingo, the water and mud flats of Florida Bay allow views of pelicans, shorebirds, terns and skimmers.
Threats
The publication in 1947 of Marjorie Stoneman Douglas' Everglades: River of Grass was as electrifying an event among naturalists as Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. It drew attention to the vast area that makes South Florida habitable but was being treated by agricultural interests and housing developers as a worthless swamp that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers would profitably be able to drain. It galvanized President Harry S. Truman's executive order later that year to protect more than 2 million acres as Everglades National Park.
The strength of Mrs. Douglas' name was such that when legislation designed by lawyers representing the sugar growers' industry proposed to suspend all water quality standards in the Everglades for twelve years, it was named the "Marjory Stoneman Douglas Act"—until the 103-year old author demanded that her name be removed from the pending bill (which passed however as the "Everglades Forever Act") when it was finally passed in 1994.
The Florida courts had imposed a plan to reduce damaging phosphate levels in the Park's waters to below 10ppb by 2006. The phosphate derives from sugarcane farming.
Governor Jeb Bush has now put the date back to 2016. Judge William Hoeveler, who was overseeing the cleanup, has has been removed following legal action by US Sugar Corporation of Clewiston, Florida.
External Links
- Everglades National Park (National Park Service)
- Florida Everglades
- Friends of the Everglades
- Everglades National Park
- The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP)
- Overview of the Everglade's condition on its 50th anniversary, 1997.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Everglades."
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Everglades is a city located in Collier County, Florida. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 479.Geography
Everglades is located at 25°51'32" North, 81°23'5" West (25.858768, -81.384715)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.1 km² (1.2 mi²). 2.4 km² (0.9 mi²) of it is land and 0.6 km² (0.2 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 21.01% water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 479 people, 230 households, and 154 families residing in the city. The population density is 198.9/km² (513.2/mi²). There are 345 housing units at an average density of 143.2/km² (369.6/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 96.45% White, 0.84% African American, 0.63% Native American, 0.42% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 1.46% from other races, and 0.21% from two or more races. 3.97% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 230 households out of which 13.9% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 60.0% are married couples living together, 3.0% have a female householder with no husband present, and 33.0% are non-families. 27.0% of all households are made up of individuals and 9.1% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.08 and the average family size is 2.50. In the city the population is spread out with 11.9% under the age of 18, 4.2% from 18 to 24, 19.0% from 25 to 44, 30.5% from 45 to 64, and 34.4% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 56 years. For every 100 females there are 104.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 111.0 males. The median income for a household in the city is $36,667, and the median income for a family is $38,929. Males have a median income of $32,083 versus $22,222 for females. The per capita income for the city is $20,535. 6.0% of the population and 6.1% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 9.5% are under the age of 18 and 1.6% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Everglades, Florida."
Crosswords: Everglades |
| English words defined with "Everglades": Everglade ♦ Lake Okeechobee ♦ Okeechobee. (references) |
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Screenplays | I've been sending up and down the coast from Sarasota to the Everglades and still getting back the same dead air. There's nothing (Day of the Dead; writing credit: George A. Romero) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Los Everglades (1970) Everglades (1961) Wind Across the Everglades (1958) Prowlers of the Everglades (1953) | |
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 | Spanning the southern tip of the Florida Peninsula and most of Florida Bay, Everglades National Park is the only subtropical preserve in North America. It is the only place in the world where alligators and crocodiles exist side by side. Credit: NASA. |  | Passage to Alligator Bay, Everglades - looks like Pirates of the Caribbean Party off of HYDROGRAPHER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Traverse party in the Everglades Forward measurement party Party off of HYDROGRAPHER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | A fisheye view of the cruise ship port at Port Everglades. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Photo #1 - A fisherman casting his net for mullet and other fish off a bridge south of Everglades City. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Photo #2 - A fisherman casting his net for mullet and other fish off a bridge south of Everglades City. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Fishing off the seawall just south of Everglades City. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Harvesting sugarcane in south Florida, where scientists in the ARS Sugarcane Production Research Unit are identifying research to help sustain both agriculture and natural Everglades ecosystems. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
 | Melaleuca leaf weevils, Oxyops vitiosa, were released this year in the Florida Everglades as a biological control of melaleuca trees. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Gary Buckingham.. |  | Everglades National Park. Credit: NPS. |
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| "Everglades Gardens" by Mathew Patterson Commentary: "Black + white photo from historic Leura Gardens, brick wall and trees in winter." | "Seminole Indian Ruins" by Terry Eaton Commentary: "Primitive shelter of Seminole Indians. Everglades, Florida, U.S.A." |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | The budding young environmentalist I met this month, who joined me in exploring the Florida Everglades. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | We moved to protect Yellowstone, the Everglades, Lake Tahoe. |
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| "Everglades" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 96.67% of the time. "Everglades" is used about 30 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 96.67% | 29 | 64,444 |
| Noun (plural) | 3.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 30 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Everglades, FL (city, FIPS 21425) |
Expression using "Everglades": Everglades National Park. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "Everglades"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | Everglades virus (Everglades virus). (various references) | |
Dutch | Evergladesvirus (Everglades virus). (various references) | |
French | virus Everglades (Everglades virus). (various references) | |
German | Evergladesvirus (Everglades virus). (various references) | |
Greek | Ιός Everglades (Everglades virus). (various references) | |
Italian | virus Everglades (Everglades virus). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | evergladesay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | virus Everglades (Everglades virus). (various references) | |
Spanish | virus Everglades (Everglades virus). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Everglades" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: evergalde, Evergates. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Everglades" (pronounced e"verglā'dz) |
| 4 | -l ā' d z | accolades, switchblades. |
| 3 | -ā' d z | barricades, bridesmaids, escapades, mermaids, motorcades, renegades. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-g-l-r-s-v" | |
-1 letter: everglade, leveraged, leverages. | |
-2 letters: degrease, deleaves, graveled, laveered, leverage, released, resealed, revealed, selvaged, selvedge, slavered. | |
-3 letters: adverse, dealers, degrees, deleave, delvers, deserve, dragees, evaders, galeres, gaveled, gelders, gravels, greased, greaved, greaves, lagered, laveers, leaders, leavers, ledgers, levered, raveled, redlegs, regaled, regales, release, releves, reveals, reveled, selvage, several, severed, sleaved, sleeved, vealers, verglas. | |
-4 letters: agreed. | |
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