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Author |
: Ellie Whitney |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 428 |
Release |
: 2015-10-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781561648481 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1561648485 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Florida's Wetlands by : Ellie Whitney
Taken from the earlier book Priceless Florida (and modified for a stand-alone book), this volume discusses Florida's wetlands, including interior wetlands, seepage wetlands, marshes, flowing-water swamps, beaches and marine marshes, and mangrove swamps. Introduces readers to the trees and plants, insects, mammals, reptiles, and other species that live in Florida's unique wetlands ecosystem, including the Virginia iris, American white waterlily, cypress, treefrogs, warblers, and the Florida black bear. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series
Author |
: Craig Pittman |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 376 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105132249934 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Paving Paradise by : Craig Pittman
What is happening to Florida's "protected" wetlands? "This is an exhaustive, timely, and devastating account of the destruction of Florida's wetlands, and the disgraceful collusion of government at all levels. It's an important book that should be read by every voter, every taxpayer, every parent, every Floridian who cares about saving what's left of this precious place."--Carl Hiaasen "Pittman and Waite pulled the lid off federal and state wetlands regulation in Florida and peered deep into the cauldron of 'mitigation,' 'no net loss,' 'banking,' and the rest of the regulatory stew. For anyone interested in wetlands generally, and in Florida environmental issues in particular, this is an eye-opening, must-read book."--J. B. Ruhl Since 1990, every president has pledged to protect wetlands, and Florida possesses more than any state except Alaska. And yet, since that time Florida has lost more than 84,000 acres of wetlands that help replenish the water supply and protect against flooding. How and why the state's wetlands are continuing to disappear is the subject of Paving Paradise. Journalists Craig Pittman and Matthew Waite spent nearly four years investigating the political expedience, corruption, and negligence on the part of federal and state agencies that led to a failure to enforce regulations on developers. They traveled throughout the state, interviewed hundreds of people, dug through thousands of documents, and analyzed satellite imagery to identify former wetlands that were now houses, stores, and parking lots. The result was an award-winning series, "Vanishing Wetlands," of more than twenty stories in the St. Petersburg Times, exposing the unseen environmental consequences of rampant sprawl. Expanding their work into book form in the tradition of Michael Grunwald's The Swamp, Pittman and Waite explain how wetland protection has become a taxpayer-funded program that creates the illusion of environmental protection while doing little to stem the tide of destruction.
Author |
: Vicky Franchino |
Publisher |
: Community Connections: Getting |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1634705165 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781634705165 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Florida Wetlands by : Vicky Franchino
Explore the wetlands of Florida and learn all about what it's like to live in this biome, from what kinds of plants and animals are found there to what kinds of weather it receives.-- Provided by publisher.
Author |
: Peggy Sias Lantz |
Publisher |
: Pineapple Press |
Total Pages |
: 35 |
Release |
: 2014-05-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781561647057 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1561647055 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Wetlands of Florida by : Peggy Sias Lantz
This charmingly illustrated booklet explains the importance of Florida's wetlands in the water cycle and highlights the unique Everglades. It was originally published as part of The Florida Water Story in 1998. This is one of a four part children's series that includes the Oceans, the Coral Reefs and the Wetlands of Florida. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series
Author |
: John David Tobe |
Publisher |
: University of Florida, Institute of Food & Agricultural Sciences |
Total Pages |
: 612 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: MINN:31951D02391069V |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (9V Downloads) |
Synopsis Florida Wetland Plants by : John David Tobe
Author |
: Eleanor Noss Whitney |
Publisher |
: Florida's Natural Ecosystems and Native Species |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1561646857 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781561646852 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Florida's Uplands by : Eleanor Noss Whitney
Concise and heavily illustrated introduction to high pine grasslands, flatwoods and prairies, interior scrub, hardwood hammocks, rocklands, and caves, and beach dunes.
Author |
: Jason Vuic |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 269 |
Release |
: 2021-05-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781469663166 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1469663163 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Swamp Peddlers by : Jason Vuic
Florida has long been a beacon for retirees, but for many, the American dream of owning a home there was a fantasy. That changed in the 1950s, when the so-called "installment land sales industry" hawked billions of dollars of Florida residential property, sight unseen, to retiring northerners. For only $10 down and $10 a month, working-class pensioners could buy a piece of the Florida dream: a graded home site that would be waiting for them in a planned community when they were ready to build. The result was Cape Coral, Port St. Lucie, Deltona, Port Charlotte, Palm Coast, and Spring Hill, among many others—sprawling communities with no downtowns, little industry, and millions of residential lots. In The Swamp Peddlers, Jason Vuic tells the raucous tale of the sale of residential lots in postwar Florida. Initially selling cheap homes to retirees with disposable income, by the mid-1950s developers realized that they could make more money selling parcels of land on installment to their customers. These "swamp peddlers" completely transformed the landscape and demographics of Florida, devastating the state environmentally by felling forests, draining wetlands, digging canals, and chopping up at least one million acres into grid-like subdivisions crisscrossed by thousands of miles of roads. Generations of northerners moved to Florida cheaply, but at a huge price: high-pressure sales tactics begat fraud; poor urban planning begat sprawl; poorly-regulated development begat environmental destruction, culminating in the perfect storm of the 21st-century subprime mortgage crisis.
Author |
: Vicky Franchino |
Publisher |
: Cherry Lake |
Total Pages |
: 28 |
Release |
: 2016-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781634705769 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1634705769 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Florida Wetlands by : Vicky Franchino
Explore the wetlands of Florida and learn all about what it's like to live in this biome, from what kinds of plants and animals are found there to what kinds of weather it receives.
Author |
: BarbaraA. Purdy |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 338 |
Release |
: 2017-12-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351411349 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351411349 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Art and Archaeology of Florida's Wetlands by : BarbaraA. Purdy
Waterlogged archaeological sites in Florida contain tools, art objects, dietary items, human skeletal remains, and glimpses of past environments that do not survive the ravages of time at typical terrestrial sites. Unfortunately, archaeological wet sites are invisible since their preservation depends upon their entombment in oxygen-free, organic deposits. As a result, they are often destroyed accidentally during draining, dredging, and development projects. These sites and the objects they contain are an important part of Florida's heritage. They provide an opportunity to learn how the state's earliest residents used available resources to make their lives more comfortable and how they expressed themselves artistically. Without the wood carvings from water-saturated sites, it would be easy to think of early Floridians as culturally impoverished because Florida does not have stone suitable for creating sculptures. This book compiles in one volume detailed accounts of such famous sites as Key Marco, Little Salt Spring, Windover, Ft. Center, and others. The book discusses wet site environments and explains the kinds of physical, chemical, and structural components required to ensure that the proper conditions for site formation are present and prevail through time. The book also talks about how to preserve artifacts that have been entombed in anaerobic deposits and the importance of classes of objects, such as wooden carvings, dietary items, human skeletal remains, to our better understanding of past cultures. Until now this information has been scattered in obscure documents and articles, thus diminishing its importance. Our ancestors may not have been Indians, but they contributed to the state's heritage for more than 10,000 years. Once disturbed by ambitious dredging and draining projects, their story is gone forever; it cannot be transplanted to another location.
Author |
: Craig Pittman |
Publisher |
: University Press of Florida |
Total Pages |
: 499 |
Release |
: 2010-05-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813037431 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0813037433 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Paving Paradise by : Craig Pittman
Florida possesses more wetlands than any other state except Alaska, yet since 1990 more than 84,000 acres have been lost to development despite presidential pledges to protect them. How and why the state's wetlands are continuing to disappear is the subject of Paving Paradise. Journalists Craig Pittman and Matthew Waite spent nearly four years investigating the political expedience, corruption, and negligence on the part of federal and state agencies that led to a failure to enforce regulations on developers. They traveled throughout the state, interviewed hundreds of people, dug through thousands of documents, and analyzed satellite imagery to identify former wetlands that were now houses, stores, and parking lots. Exposing the unseen environmental consequences of rampant sprawl, Pittman and Waite explain how wetland protection creates the illusion of environmental protection while doing little to stem the tide of destruction.