Lecture 18: Ethics, Conservation History, & Forestry pt 1
35 million acres of land 21 million acres or ¾ of it was wetlands! (wetland area equal to 5 Massachusetts!)
David Levy Yulee
Swamp and Overflowed Lands Acts
Cypress in South Carolina
Pres. Theodore Roosevelt ( )
Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge
Pres. Truman at dedication of Everglades National Park, December 6, 1947
1959
“The thermostat age”
Miami Built by scooping out material from bottom of Biscayne Bay in 1920s “[Real estate developers] rowed the customers out in the ocean and let them pick out some nice smooth piece of water where they would like to build, and then he would replace the water with an island, and today the dredge is the national emblem of Florida.” Will Rogers
Google Earth
“Big Cypress is just typical South Florida real estate. It’s private property; eventually it’s going to be put to human use.” After all Walt Disney was doing this in central Florida in the Orlando area… Disneyworld opened in 1971.
Big Cypress Swamp Western headwaters of Everglades
Everglades Jetport Stage one
Chicago’s O’Hare
Altered hydrology of south Florida
Miccosukee and Seminole Indians