Everglades - A River of Grass

There is no place on the planet like the Everglades. It is where two great biomes of life meet - the tropical and the temperate mid-latitude, which makes up much of the continental United States. Plants and animals from each coalesce in the Everglades to produce a sub tropical tapestry of ecosystems that is unmatched anywhere in the world.
Spanning over 60 miles it is the widest river in the world. It has been described as a river of grass…this wonderland of life is a subtropical paradise that mystifies the mind and nurtures the soul.

[@user-lg1gj3li9j]

You did a great job describing my favorite place on earth. I've always been in The Big Cypress Preserve hunting on land holdings of friends, hunting non-native and invasive species such as the wild pigs that are so numerous and destructive to the natural landscape. It's an honor to be part of a removal team, but for me I'm no longer physically able to get out there to do my part in keeping invasive species to a dull roar and this saddens me. I hope our younger generations will continue the work of clearing the non-native species and regenerating the damaged areas by planting the native plants and trees.

[@justincrews3032]

I lived very close to the Everglades for most of my life, never realizing or appreciating how unique all these things are. I see them explain things like gumbo limbo and Cyprus knees and I think wow those are some pretty unique trees but my whole life they’ve been so farmiliar

[@towedarray7217]

Some very impressive & well-traveled people have believed this to be the most beautiful single place in the world. It’s so powerful as a piece of nature that it almost shuns mankind from trying to alter it. Stubborn and beautiful part of the planet. I have always been surprised/disappointed that there are no primates native to the Everglades but I guess that’s how the cookie crumbles.

[@brightmooninthenight2111]

Well there's primates in it now. I could never call any single place the most beautiful for the expressions of nature are too unique and supreme in incomparable essence.
I really hope to experience the everglades soon

[@zuzannawisniewska4464]

Everglades National Park Florida - is a World Heritage Site, an International Biosphere Reserve, a Wetland of International Importance, and a Special Conservation Area.This park preserves an unparalleled lanscape that provides important habitants for many rare and endangered species such as the manatee, Americas crocodile, and the elusive panther from Florida.Thank you for the beautiful video from Chicago, Illinois. Regards.

[@user-vy5jw1zm1o]

Nurtures the soul
Real shit!! You can be having the worst day but you just go out there and not be doing anything and all the city bs just melts away soon as you turn onto that one long street with bushes on either side

[@mountaintopchalet]

Great!!

[@adriangadd6888]

Absolutely wonderful production and education of a vital part of the state of Florida!
Thank you for enlightening us with this important knowledge.....

[@MillCreekEnt]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@dustman96]

Thanks for the nice documentary.

[@regina9263]

Please give Marjory Stoneman Douglas credit for her description of the Glades :River Of Grass".Thankyou for a great presenttion.

[@dante0spencer0domain]

What a funny thing to say , it was indigenous people who named it river of grass Douglas used it as a namesake for her book

[@user-vy5jw1zm1o]

Everyone's worrying about the California and Australia fires but nobodys saying it's a necessity for natural removal and regrowth fire isn't only death and destruction but it's life
-avatar aang

[@jamesbowen9347]

I’ve seen crocodiles up here near Sebastian inlet. Saw one while surfing early one morning. It was going back into the inlet

[@zuzannawisniewska4464]

Edge of the Everglades: big cypress national preserve...

[@user-vy5jw1zm1o]

They simply go belly up . Damn CZcams is even censoring nature documentaries with key words like die?...

[@EcoNeighbor]

Excellent documentary 👏

[@rogergiles3190]

But wrong. Small animals in danger of extinction ?

[@BrianCarnevaleB26]

It was said there is no place like it, the everglades. Based on the video images I just watched there are places just like it along the Myakka & Peace rivers which I visited As well as Anna Maria Island Estuary & State park areas. Same types a dwarf Cyprus and mangrove swamps. Of course, no as vast but the same types of views which really have stayed with me and it is almost like I was there again in my favorite Florida Country watching this video! Or we could be 25 miles out East of the Interstate along the Myakka River in Manatee County. Or perhaps out at Robinson Preserve near where my folks had a place close to the Gulf where the same type of Cyprus and Mangrove swamps stretch for a few miles.
The west coast of Florida is what remains of any "old" natural habitat other than the rivers of grass.
Thanks for the great video, very well done and informative.

[@zuzannawisniewska4464]

The Everglades is an expansive area of land in south Florida , which consists of 1.5 million acres...

[@zuzannawisniewska4464]

This park is lokated in the southern part of the state of Florida.Created in 1947..

[@MrDominickpal]

This was great except that some of the birds were misidentified!!!

[@conraddubois6150]

This earth is only 6000 years old !

[@rickdiaz4559]

Of course it is

[@mrwaldoful]

must be protected