Essay On The Everglades

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A subtropical wilderness with grass marshes, forests thick with trees hundreds of years old and hardwood hammocks (trees that only grow a few inches tall but packed very close together but can take up acres). Seems like a place to protect. Ever since the 1900 draining of the everglades, the ecosystem has shrunk by 50%. People did not see how important the Florida everglades where. The effect of the polluted water in the everglades is causing problems for both people and the inhabitants of the everglades. To begin, the occupants of the Florida everglades are facing problems as well as the humans due to the dirty water in the everglades. “The everglades which provided nearly 7 million people living in Florida has fallen victim to extended droughts

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