This park features a wealth of vegetation and wildlife typical of the Everglades, plus a forest made up of tropical trees. Although rare elsewhere, the Florida royal palm is a common tree...

Welcome to the Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park, ?the Amazon of North America.? The Fakahatchee Strand is a linear swamp forest, approximately twenty miles long by five miles wide and...

The freshwaters of the Big Cypress Swamp, essential to the health of the neighboring Everglades, support the rich marine estuaries along Florida's southwest coast. Conserving over 729,000...