The Nature of Everglade

The Nature of Everglades

            This article is about Everglades in Florida. Everglades is a one of the unique regions of the earth. First it states a brief history of Everglades. The Spanish mapmaker just printed over the unknown blank space because form them, that place was truly mysteries; fabulous with a wealth they were never able to prove. Then he talks about Everglades from different aspects: the grass, the water, the rock, The River of time and the life on the rock.

            The grass in the Everglades is unique. Saw grass reaches on hundred miles from Lake Okeechobee to the Gulf of Mexico, sixty/seventy miles wide. It grows up to fifteen in places of deepest water. Besides those facts, the article focuses on how pretty about the grass and how do they react to the hurricane and fire.

            The water in the Everglades is from Lake Okeechobee, and water in Lake Okeechobee is from the rains and northern lakes and streams. In Florida, there are only wet or dry season. In rainy season, it can cause full flood, overflowed the flat country for miles, north and south.

            The rocks hold the fresh water and the grass and all those other shapes and forms of air-loving life only a little way out of the salt water. The material of it came from the sea, soft lumpy limestone. A diversity of life lives upon the rock that holds it: trees, southern longleaf, bark patches, rattle snakes woodpeckers and dozens of other birds are there in their seasons.