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Chris invites  you to enjoy  some of the natural beauty of Southwest Florida. Chris and Deane live in Naples on Oil Well Road at the west edge of the Everglades.  Oil Well Road was named so because it led into an Oil Well area of the Everglades.

On the other side of us is the breath taking Cork Screw Swamp with one of the last remaining True Cyprus Tree Forest in North America. We actually live on BIG CORK SCREW ISLAND of the Ever Glades.   

Deane's Camero & our Damon Motor Bus at our Naples home on edge of Everglades Deane's Feeder    

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11,000 acres of pines, cypress, grass-and-sedge,  wet  prairie,  saw - grass marshland,  lakes  and   sloughs filled   with water lettuce,  wood storks, ferns, orchids,  air plants, wading birds,  alli- gators and  otters.

National Audubon Society, here protects North America's largest remaining stand of ancient bald cypress, 600-year-old trees, some as tall as130 feet.

Ding Darling Refuge, Sanibel Island Fl.  

safeguards pristine wildlife habitat of Sanibel Island.

Protects endangered and  threatened species, provides feeding, nesting,  and roosting areas  for migratory birds.

Provides habitat for  220  species of birds, 50 species of reptiles and amphibians, 32 mammals,  8,000 acres of mangrove forest, submerged seagrass beds, cordgrass marshes,  and West Indian hardwood hammocks.

The amazing 5-mile Wildlife Drive is one thing that makes the refuge so popular, especially from Octoberr thru March.

As much as one third of the entire U.S. population of roseate spoonbills can be found in the park at the same time.

You will be educated, inspired, entertained and thrilled at these two magnificent  and awesome parks,  in the heart of beautiful Southwest Florida. They truly are National Treasures.

CHRIS's communiqué: What Plants Are Around the Florida Waters?

UNIVERSITY of FLORIDA EXTENSION SERVICE 

Article NATIVE AQUATIC and WETLAND PLANTS in FLORIDA

W E T Everglades covers approximately 3,474 sq mi South Florida. It is the largest  sub-tropical  wetland in the  U.S.  Total acreage of the National park (land and water)  is  1,509,000   acres.  Largest   continuous sawgrass prairie stand in North America.

Everglades is flat,  dominated by  sawgrass,  with a series of alternating ridges and sloughs, through which an imperceptible flow of water courses south from  Lake Okeechobee.  Ridges are only six inches higher  than the sloughs,  but this makes a huge difference  in this sodden world. Sloughs are the valleys of the Everglades and the tree island ridges are its mountains.

The islands formed  on elevated bedrock  a few inches higher than the  surrounding marsh,   provide havens  for animal and plant diversity.  Tree islands  are a half-mile to two miles long, and have  two or three times  more plant and  animal species than the surrounding marsh. Wading birds use the island trees to nest; alligators and turtles lay their eggs on the dry land; and deer, snakes, lizards, and other animals find refuge there from rising water.

W I L D  Everglades boasts rare and endangered species as American crocodile, Florida panther and West   Indian  manatee.  Most significant breeding ground for tropical wading birds   in America. Home of 14 endangered and nine threatened  species.   Home to over  1,000 species of plants.

Board walks  invite you. After you buy your home be sure to visit    these Ever Glades.  They are one of the worlds greatest wonders, and are especially precious to the Native American Siminole Tribe  and Missosukee Tribe who live there today, and work hard to preserve these wonderous waters and islands of grass, trees, and wild life.

In 1947 Everglades National Park was established and Marjory Stoneman Douglas book  Everglades, River of Grass was published. This book has inspired countless people and groups to protect these Everglades. Here is the opening paragraph from the book.

There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth, remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them: their vast glittering openess, wider than the enormous visible round of the horizon, the racing, free saltness and sweetness of their massive winds, under the dazzling blue heights of space.They are unique also in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life they enclose. The miracle of the light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slow moving below, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the Everglades. It is a river of grass.                Marjory Stoneman Douglas
                                         The Everglades, River of Grass

 Work continues to prevent the drilling of oil wells in Florida Everglades ecosystem. 

 Old Oil Well in Collier County  

THANKS. Deane & Chris Harker