Plip, plop, plip. Droplets of water fall from your paddle blade and splatter lightly on calm waters as you glide along just feet from a pristine beach in one of the most remote areas east of the ...

From the very beginning, Everglades was not like other national parks. “It was the first national park set aside for its biodiversity of plants and animals,” explained Allyson Gantt, spokesperson for ...

Those who associate wide-open wilderness areas with the Western United States likely haven’t been to Everglades National Park. The Florida park stretches across 1.5 million acres and protects the ...

A map that distinguishes natural from human-made features shows how both threaten Florida’s immense and unique freshwater marsh. ByMatthew W. Chwastyk This story appears in the September 2018 issue of ...