2025年3月6日 · Primarily consisting of limestone, the bedrock geology of Everglades National Park has responded over time to the ongoing processes of weathering, erosion, compaction of organic sediments, unique hydrologic conditions, and episodes of sea-level rise and fall to produce the landscapes we see today.

Everglades National Park is the third largest national park in the continental United States and is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Wetland of International Importance, and an International Biosphere Reserve.

The national park features extensive freshwater and saltwater environments such as open sawgrass prairies, mangrove estuaries, tropical hardwood hammocks, pine rocklands, and seagrass meadows that are home to a diverse biological community that includes more than 400 species of birds and rare or threatened species such as the Florida panther ...

2025年2月10日 · Everglades National Park protects an unparalleled landscape that provides important habitat for numerous rare and endangered species like the manatee, American crocodile, and the elusive Florida panther.

2024年4月21日 · Florida’s Everglades National Park is the largest contiguous mangrove forest in the western hemisphere. Plan your trip to the southern tip of Florida to visit the largest subtropical...

Everglades National Park in Florida protects an unparalleled landscape that provides important habitat for numerous rare and endangered species like the manatee, American crocodile, and the elusive Florida panther.

Everglades National Park is a national park of the United States that protects the southern twenty percent of the original Everglades in Florida. The park is the largest tropical wilderness in the United States and the largest wilderness of any kind east of the Mississippi River .

World Heritage Site, Biosphere Reserve; National Park, Wilderness Area. A vast, shallow drainage basin consisting of two very broad zones. The first consists of large areas of freshwater and wet prairies, characterized by islands of tropical hardwood trees.

2019年1月16日 · In the heart of Big Cypress National Preserve, for example, the high points are about 13 ft in elevation. This high ground is dominated by “hardwood hammocks”, evergreen broadleaf trees live gumbo limbo, live oak, and mahogany. It looks almost like a tropical rainforest, but with fewer vines and ferns.

2019年12月2日 · America’s Everglades is a subtropical wetland ecosystem spanning 1.5 million acres across south Florida. Known as a biodiversity hotspot, the Everglades is filled with an abundance of wildlife and is surrounded by numerous human communities, including the cities of Miami and Fort Lauderdale.