The quick version.



The Barkers paper did not limit their remarks to the area within the ENP boundaries but referenced to the entire region that is defined as the everglade's. While some of your criticism may warrant some merit other portions are severely compromised by your selective segregation of region in question and its contextual meaning.



Note: Everglades National Park and in adjacent areas of South Florida. Everglades National Park (ENP) is a huge place. The park itself is more than 1.5 million acres, larger than the state of Delaware. Most of the park is accessible only by helicopter or airboat. It's not only a national park, but

also is recognized as an International Biosphere Reserve,

a World Heritage Site, and a Ramsar Wetland of International

Importance. The climate of South Florida is semi-tropical, hot and muggy in the summer, dry and pleasant in the winter. All

of South Florida, from the Big Cypress Swamp at the Northwest,

north to and including Lake Okeechobee in the center,

and the Atlantic Ridge on which the Miami metropolitan

area sits, is recognized as the Everglades ecoregion or

sometimes as the “historic Everglades,” an area of about 3 million acres.



Ernie Eison

WESTWOOD ACRES REPTILE FARM INC.

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