Big Cypress National Preserve protects over 700,000 acres of the Big Cypress Swamp in Southwest Florida. It was established as the nation’s first national preserve thanks to local conservations, ...
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Big Cypress is remarkable for its temperate and tropical mixture of species found across five major habitats: cypress swamps, marl prairies, pinelands, hardwood hammocks and estuaries including tidal ...
During the 20th century about half of the Big Cypress Swamp and the neighboring Everglades was destroyed for cities and farms. Invasive trees such as the melaleuca and the Brazilian pepper ...