Everglades National Park - A Lazy Flowing River By John Pelley and Maggie Pelley

Words cannot adequately describe the experiences you will have spending a week at The Everglades National Park. You are definitely strangers in a strange land: a very fragile ecosystem for all of Southern Florida and the entire nation. The Everglades has two seasons: wet and dry. This is the dry sea

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Clewiston, Florida - Lake Okeechobee and the Seminole Nation By John Pelley and Maggie Pelley

Clewiston, Florida resides on the Southern shore of Lake Okeechobee, a lake enhanced by the US Army Corps of Engineers to provide water for Southern Florida. Previously the water flowed through the Everglades to the Gulf. Now it is stored in the lake, reducing the size of the Everglades, but giv

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