: Everglades Wildguide Handbook 143 by George Jean Craighead Fraser Betty Illustrator - Natural history Florida Everglades; Everglades National Park (Fla.)

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Illustrator: Betty Fraser

Handbook 143

Everglades Wildguide

The Natural History of Everglades National Park, Florida

U.S. Department of the Interior Washington, D.C. 1988

Here is the story of the plants and animals of the Everglades, this country's subtropical kingdom. Plants and animals found nowhere else in the 50 states are found here in abundance, though in an increasingly perilous state. In this handbook, first published in 1972, author and researcher Jean Craighead George brings to the telling of this story long years of study and understanding. Checklists and glossaries at the back buttress her account of the natural history of this national park.

National Park Handbooks, compact introductions to the great natural and historic places administered by the National Park Service, are published to support the National Park Service's management programs at the parks and to promote understanding and enjoyment of the parks. Each is intended to be informative reading and a useful guide before, during, and after a park visit. More than 100 titles are in print. This is Handbook 143. You may purchase the handbooks through the mail by writing to Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402.

?GPO: 1987--181-917/60504

Preface vii America's Subtropical Wonderland 1 Pine Rockland 7 Tree-Island Glades 12 Mangrove Swamp 16 Florida Bay and the Coastal Prairie 21 Big Cypress Swamp 26 Plant-and-Animal Communities 29 Tropical Hardwood Hammock 30 Cypress Head 35 Bayhead 38 Willow Head 40 Web of Life in the Marsh 42 Alligator Hole in the Glades 45 Discovering Everglades Plants and Animals 49 Air Plants 52 Mammals 59 Birds 64 Reptiles and Amphibians 70 Fishes 72 Animals without Backbones 75 Indians of the Everglades 77 Appendix 80 Glossary 81 For Reading and Reference 84 Rare and Endangered Animals 86 Checklist of Mammals 87 Checklist of Birds 88 Checklist of Reptiles and Amphibians 96 Checklist of Trees 98

PREFACE

The shimmering waters of the everglades creep silently down the tip of Florida under warm subtropical skies. In a vast, shallow sheet this lazy river idles through tall grasses and shadowy forests, easing over alligator holes and under bird rookeries, finally mingling with the salty waters of Florida Bay and the Gulf of Mexico in the mangrove swamps. From source to sea, all across the shallow breadth of this watery landscape, life abounds.

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