The badlands sure are a bad place!! Now we are going to jump to a place just as dangerous but totally different in landscape, The Everglades! The Everglades are located in the south Florida. It is home to any different types of animals including alligators.
Everglades National Park is:
Everglades National Park is:
- Largest continuous stand of sawgrass prairie in North America.
- Predominant water recharge area for all of South Florida through the Biscayne aquifer.
- A World Heritage Site, a Biosphere Reserve, a Wetland of International Significance, and an Outstanding Florida Water.
- Home of thirteen endangered and ten threatened species.
- Largest mangrove ecosystem in the western hemisphere.
- Largest designated wilderness in the eastern U.S.
- Most significant breeding grounds for tropical wading birds in North America.
- Site of significant ethnographic resources.
- Site of a nationally significant estuarine complex in Florida Bay.
- Only subtropical preserve on the North American continent.
- Major "edge" area of the northern and southern limits for many species creating a unique mingling of diverse temperate and subtropical species