Everglades Wildlife Management Area
Florida · United States
Enjoy a smooth airboat ride through the back trails of tall Reeds and brush, seeing Alligators a variety of birds, turtles, Iguanas and sometimes snakes along the way. This is an up close and personal experience in the Everglades with your own group on a narrated guided tour. This is also a learning experience, we take pride in educating our guests about the eco-system and South Florida's rich history of what the Everglades was like in the old days with drug runners, moonshiners and the wild Everglades.
Contents
8 sections · tap a section for its opening lines1Everglades Wildlife Management Area
Welcome, esteemed travelers and fellow students of the natural world, to the Francis S. Taylor and Everglades Wildlife Management Area. …
Listen in the app2The Arterial Canals and the Hydrological Web
Our first specific area of study brings us to the edge of the extensive canal system that forms the modern border and internal circulation network of the Wildlife Management Area. Stand near the water’s edge and observe the deep,…
Listen in the app3The Sawgrass Marsh: The River of Grass
Moving outward from the engineered canals, we arrive at the expansive, open marshlands. This is the iconic landscape that the legendary conservationist Marjory Stoneman Douglas famously dubbed the River of Grass. …
Listen in the app4Tree Island Habitats: The Ecological Anchors
As we progress further into the management area, direct your attention to the elevated clusters of dense vegetation rising like dark emerald ships from the flat sea of sawgrass. These are the remarkable tree islands, sometimes…
Listen in the app5The Avian and Reptilian Inhabitants
We now turn our analytical focus to the spectacular and formidable fauna that utilize this intricate landscape. As you scan the waterways and the edges of the tree islands, you are looking at prime habitat for one of the most…
Listen in the app6Airboat Trails and Traditional Harvesting
Let us examine the human pathways through this seemingly impenetrable wilderness. Look out across the marsh, and you will notice subtle, flattened trails cutting through the dense sawgrass. …
Listen in the app7Active Conservation and the Ecology of Fire
As we arrive at this penultimate location, the landscape offers a clear visual lesson in active environmental stewardship. The management of six hundred thousand acres of dynamic wetlands requires constant, rigorous scientific…
Listen in the app8Closing
As our scholarly exploration of the Francis S. Taylor and Everglades Wildlife Management Area draws to a close, let us pause to synthesize the extraordinary complexity we have witnessed today. …
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What is Everglades Wildlife Management Area?
Everglades Wildlife Management Area is a place in Florida · United States with 8 story sections on Tellby. You can read the opening of each section on this page; the sound plays in the app.
| Location | Florida · United States |
|---|---|
| Type | Activity |
| Story sections | 8 |
| Text language | English |
| Coordinates | 26.0958, -80.6808 |
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