1. Lecture 18: Ethics, Conservation History, & Forestry pt 1

2. 35 million acres of land 21 million acres or ¾ of it was wetlands! (wetland area equal to 5 Massachusetts!)

4. David Levy Yulee

6. Swamp and Overflowed Lands Acts

7. Cypress in South Carolina

9. Pres. Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909)

10. Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge

12. Pres. Truman at dedication of Everglades National Park, December 6, 1947

16. 1959

18. “The thermostat age”

19. 1949 1999

21. 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

23. Google Earth

28. “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.

34. Big Cypress Swamp Western headwaters of Everglades

37. Everglades Jetport Stage one

38. Chicago’s O’Hare

42. Altered hydrology of south Florida

43. Miccosukee and Seminole Indians