Fishing the Everglades: A Complete Guide for the Small Boater

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A FalconGuide to Everglades National Park and the Surrounding Area is the ultimate guide to discovering the vast ecoregion of the southern Florida mainland. Packed with photographs, maps, and informative text, this guide will help outdoors enthusiasts appreciate the landscape and varied flora and fauna of this vast watershed region whether they have a day to spend in the effort or a lifetime.

Whether from canoe or by foot, this guide will enhance the next journey into the remarkable Everglades.

Everglades National Park Florida: Trails Illustrated (Trails Illustrated Topo Maps)

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Everglades National Park Florida: Trails Illustrated (Trails Illustrated Topo Maps)

Manufacturer: Rand McNally & Company
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Binding: Map

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ASIN: 1566950147

A Paddler's Guide to Everglades National Park

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A MUST READ if you plan to paddle the 'Glades
Don't leave home without it!
Planned my trip with this book
A Paddler's Guide just in time for next years trip!

A Paddler's Guide to Everglades National Park
Johnny Molloy
Manufacturer: University Press of Florida
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ASIN: 0813017874

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For the ultimate adventure by canoe or sea kayak, this guide to paddling the Everglades offers detailed information about every significant paddling route in Everglades National Park. The 53 designated paddling routes--including the renowned Wilderness Waterway, the spine of the paddlers' pathways--provide access to Florida's endangered natural paradise, the wide sheet of water that includes pristine beaches, sun drenched keys, and the world's largest mangrove forest.

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everglades paddle.......2007-03-08

We used this book to plan a trip to the glades. The info inside and maps helped a lot. WE still needed a good chart but the maps made it easier to nav. The info on camp sites and routes were pretty accurate.

A MUST READ if you plan to paddle the 'Glades.......2007-01-23

I found this book extremely helpful; even having paddled the 'Glades twice already. This book will allow me to take "The road less travelled," on this, my third trip thru the 'Glades. I would highly recommend this to anyone planning to paddle the Wilderness Waterway, or parts thereof.

Don't leave home without it!.......2002-10-23

As an experienced Everglades paddler who has logged over 400 miles in the Everglades backcountry, I can't say enough about this book. Johnny Molloy has provided a level of detail that is truly extraordinary, and his descriptions of the trails and campsites are dead on the money. The maps alone make this book worth having. This book should find a permanent place of your list of indispensable equipment for planning and conducting an Everglades backcountry expedition.

Planned my trip with this book.......2001-02-28

I spent four days paddling in the Everglades in January. This book was essential in choosing a route, where to camp, etc. Highly recommended if you canoe or kayak in the glades

A Paddler's Guide just in time for next years trip!.......2000-08-14

I have done numerous loop trips in Everglades National Park by kayak. However, I have never done the entire Wilderness Waterway Trail end to end. I needed a guide to plan my next trip and after some searching, I came across A Paddler's Guide. Having read and used Molloy's "The Best in Tent Camping Florida" with much success, I ordered his new Paddler's Guide. I was really impressed with the amount of information, detailed maps, important campsite descriptions and very good general advice for anyone paddling this area. He gives you many trip options with the best possible route to get there. Even if you only have a couple of days to enjoy this wonderful area, you can easily pick from an overnight to a week long adventure. I highly recommend this book to anyone planning a paddling trip to the Everglades. I certainly will use it to plan my next journey through the wilderness waterway!

Everglades Wildflowers: A Field Guide to Wildflowers of the Historic Everglades, Including Big Cypress, Corkscrew, and Fakahatchee Swamps

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Rated by an Everglades Wildlife Biologist - Robert King
A fine guide to the budding and experienced naturalist

Everglades Wildflowers: A Field Guide to Wildflowers of the Historic Everglades, Including Big Cypress, Corkscrew, and Fakahatchee Swamps
Roger L. Hammer , and Roger, L. Hammer
Manufacturer: Falcon
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ASIN: 0762710896

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This guide features stunning color photographs of 300 common wildflowers from Everglades National Park and the Corkscrew, Big Cypress, and Fakahatchee Swamps. Detailed descriptions and line art aid the reader in identifying plants in the field.

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Rated by an Everglades Wildlife Biologist - Robert King.......2006-04-18

As you might tell from the above title I am quite proud of my professional attachment to the glades. I deeply love the glades and am angered by the deplorable condition that politicians, government and our American culture have allowed this unique ecosystem to degrade to. Americans, especially Florida residents, must be motivated to demand that politicians and government do whatever it takes to recover and nurture what is left of the Everglades. Anything less is shameful! Look for the book I am completing on the Everglades.

Roger L. Hammer's Everglades Wildflowers book is an outstanding work, both by him and the publisher The Globe Pequot Press (Falcon).

Knowledge of wildflowers is not a personal strength of mine. I needed a book that I was confident contained clear, accurate information on the wildflowers that are found in the glades. I'm very curious for any unusual characteristics that are not commonly known about species. Mr. Hammer gave me both. Example: The Horned Bladderwort is a very small yellow aquatic flower that is common to the Everglades marsh. But it was not until I got a copy of Mr. Hammer's book that I learned that this flower is a predator! It is the only aquatic carnivorous plant in North America.

This glossy paged book has color plates, a glossary and something that took me by surprise - a very informative description of Everglades natural history including habitat descriptions.

This is a book of unusually high quality. If you're an Everglades naturalist I think you'll want to add this one to your shelf.

A fine guide to the budding and experienced naturalist.......2003-07-28

I believe that this book will be valuable to the budding naturalist struggling to keep up on a wildflower hike and to the seasoned ranger in Everglades National Park. Arranged by color, the book is easy to use while giving a tour with interesting anecdotes that you can study beforehand. A great addition to anyones Nature Guides.

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A 5th Grade's Class Review
A spectacular environmental story
The Everglades

Everglades
Jean Craighead George
Manufacturer: Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0060212284

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The Florida Everglades is a unique ecosystem -- nowhere else in the world can such an environment be found. EVERGLADES tells the story of this living kaleidoscope of color and beauty: from its creation as a blue-green sea through its evolution to a miraculous river, the home of egrets, orchids, and alligators.

Favorite nature writer jean Craighead George spins a mesmerizing tale about the* birth and imminent destruction of the Florida Everglades, while Wendell Minor captures its lush beauty with powerful paintings.

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A 5th Grade's Class Review.......2001-10-18

We just finished reading EVERGLADES by Jean Craighead George. The storyteller was a great idea. His words really caught our attention. This book, even though it was about real life, read like a fictional story. We especially liked the way Ms. Craighead George used various synonyms to express just how many creatures were in the Everglades in the beginning. In addition to the colorful language, the incredible illustrations by Wendell Miner made the book come to life. Above all, we learned we should respect nature. A great reading experience!

A spectacular environmental story.......2001-02-15

Another spectacular picture book from one of today's greatest writing/illustrating teams, EVERGLADES isn't just a story--it's an epic, one begun thousands of years ago, when water carved this spectacular ecosystem in Florida. Jean Craighead George, author of over eighty remarkable nature books for young readers, lends awe-inspiring power to the pages of the book, while Wendell Minor's lush, colorful illustrations beautifully depict this environment, full of wildlife and vitality. The book, like Ms. George's many others, also has an important lesson to tell. In JULIE OF THE WOLVES, we see the importance of Alaska's North Slope to the animals that inhabit this seemingly bleak, barren landscape (this area is now in danger of more oil line construction). In FRIGHTFUL'S MOUNTAIN (third in the MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN trilogy), we come to know the threatened peregrine falcon, and the many threats humans have posed to it. In EVERGLADES, one feels a strong admiration toward this magnificent, but, sadly, endangered environment, and those who, like me, have never visited it, will surely long to see it for themselves. The narration is moving and fascinating, as a Seminole Indian describes to a group of children the evolution of the Florida Everglades, and inspires them to fight to help it survive. When one visits the Everglades, they will want to see the alligators, wetlands, and panthers of Mr. Minor's paintings. If you enjoy EVERGLADES, you'll fall in love with other spectacular George/ Minor collaborations, such as ARCTIC SON, the story of Ms. George's grandson who lives at the northernmost point in Alaska. As he grows up, he learns about the Inupiat Eskimos who make their home there and the tundra land around him. Mr. Minor's illustrations are quite lovely, and there's as much snow and ice in ARCTIC SON as there was grass and water in EVERGLADES. There's also MORNING, NOON, AND NIGHT, which focuses on the day-to-day lives of different animals throughout the U.S. The text it written very poetically, and Mr. Minor's illustrations of raccoons, seals, antelope, and birds are full of warmth and inspiration. And next year, a new book entitled LONESOME GEORGE will be published. This is about the famous, oldest Galapagos tortoise. Ms. George has also written a new young adult book about the Okefenokee Swamp, which is sure to be as full of environmental splendor as EVERGLADES. I can't wait to see them.

The Everglades.......2000-04-11

Jean Craighead George has done it again! What a wonderful perspective and simple telling of the history of the Everglades. As told by a Seminole Indian to the children, this story (and wonderful illustrations) produces a profound respect for the "River of Grass" and its future. As a teacher in Florida, this book was a fantastic read-aloud to my students during our unit on the Everglades. I also used George's other ecological mystery, Missing Gator of Gumbo Limbo, to study Florida's ecology.

The Panther Mystery (Boxcar Children Mysteries)

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Exciting
It was okay.
It was a good book.

The Panther Mystery (Boxcar Children Mysteries)
Gertrude Chandler Warner
Manufacturer: Albert Whitman & Company
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0807563285

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Exciting.......2007-02-17

The Panther Mystery is a good book. My son and I read it together and had a hard time putting it down.

It was okay........2001-03-12

i own this book and i think this is not exactly the best of the boxcar children book series. it is exactly in between. in my opinion this book was a teeny bit boring. if you want your money's worth i don't think you would want to buy this book.

It was a good book........1999-01-21

There was a lot of adventure. If you like Boxcar Children books, you would probably like this one too.

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Ryan's Reveiw
Heavy-Handed Message, Poor Characterization, But Good Intentions
READ DEADLY WATERS
Cliff-hanging adventure.
Action-packed excitement with many strong characters.

Deadly Waters
Gloria Skurzynski , and Alane Ferguson
Manufacturer: National Geographic Children's Books
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ASIN: 0792276558
Release Date: 2001-07-01

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The Landon family travels to Everglades National Park to investigate a strange illness among the already endangered manatees. Deadly Waters finds Jack, Ashley, and their family's new foster child, Bridger, face-to-face with sharks, alligators, and a stranger intent on stealing Jack's camera.

This exciting mystery-adventure story introduces readers to the ecology of Everglades National Park, with a special focus on Florida's threatened manatees.

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Ryan's Reveiw.......2006-10-01

Deadly Waters

I thought this book is very suspenceful it makes you keep trying to guess what the outcome will be. Like every other book from Gloria Skurzynski and Alane Ferguson this is a great book.

Deadly Waters is a book about a boy named Jack his sister Ashley and their parents Olivia and Steven. Olivia is a veterinarianand often gets called to national parks to ivestigate on strange thigs happening with the animals. Steven is a photogropher and he goes with Olivia to take pictures of the animals. They are both take foster kids on trips with them somtimes. In this book They go to Florida everglades to investigate why the manitees are dying, and they bring a boy named Bridger. Then their parents best friend Frankie brings the kids to a place named Watsons Place and then the find a pelican in the water with a fishing line in its beak and the Frankie drops the kids off at Watsons Place and goes back to the info center to drop the pelican off.
Then Jack sees a guy in a boat, and then the guy drives over to where they are and says his name is Gordon and he talks to the kids and then steals Jack's camera and drives away. Then they find a manatee and its back was cut from the prpeller and it has a baby with it then a 7ft shark comes and they all get out of the water and Bridger jumps into the water to protect the manatee and hits the shark with the fishing rod.

I think this book would bee for a 8-13 year old or who ever likes a mystery book.

Heavy-Handed Message, Poor Characterization, But Good Intentions.......2006-01-29

As a teacher, I would recommend this book only if you wanted to launch a unit on either the Everglades or manatees. The "story" provides a convenient context for introducing every conservation topics from poaching to toxic dumping to boat ettiquette to the ethics of fishing to the decimation of the local Native American tribes!

The author throws too much into the pot, and what suffers is character development. They are one-dimensional and static. One of the main characters, Bridger, is a boy who is a foster child. He has comes to reside with the family that has traveled to the Everglades and falls into this adventure/mystery. He is introduced as troubled and moody. But we learn hardly anything about why he is a foster child, or what has caused him to be so withdrawn. The predictable change that he undergoes by the end of the story feels contrived. The rest of the characters are all stereotypical cardboard cut-outs. There is not really even a clear physical description of any of them, much less any type of psycholigical profile. I am four times the age of my students, and some of the dialogue seems corny even to me!

Sadly, the "mystery" aspect of the story is the least developed of all. It involves a stolen camera and manatees that are dying of undetermined causes. Without giving away details, I have watched Scooby-Doo cases on TV that were harder to crack. Kids today are pretty sophisticated, and I predict they will solve this mystery pretty easily.

But to its credit, the text does create a vivid sense of place, and the main scene involving a theft and a boating "incident" with manatees is well-paced, exciting and suspenseful. I give the author kudos for her noble goals: to get kids interested in saving our wild, natural places and to raise awareness about our endangered species.

READ DEADLY WATERS.......2004-04-09

The book Deadly Waters by Gloria Skurzznski and Alane Ferguson. First there were manatees getting sick and dieing. So the Landon family got called to Florida. Than Gordon came and stole Jack's camera. After they went to a restaurant they saw Gordon's boat. Jack's parents left to go to other places so Jack and Bridger went to go check out the boat. When they got to the boat Jack found his camera and took it. Than Gordon came and pulled out a gun than held it to Jack's waist.
At the beginning of the book I thought I wouldn't like it but I did like it. There was a bit of action in the book. My favorite character in the book is Bridger because he wouldn't really give up. At the ending they solved why the manatees were getting sick.

Cliff-hanging adventure........2004-03-25

These are the most exciting mystery books that you'll ever read. I personally like these books because it's not all mystery. It also has a lot to do with adventure. You definitely can't put this book down after you start reading it.

The Landon family has gone to Florida to the Everglades with their potential foster kid, Bridger. While Olivia, Jack and Ashley's mom, researches about the manatees, Jack, Ashley, and Bridger get to go fishing with their guide, Frankie - a girl! She drops them off at the Watson place, which is said to be cursed, to go drop off an injured pelican that they found on the way. Meanwhile, this guy in a boat shows up, acting all nice, and steal Jack's camera. Why did he do it? This little robbery could lead to a big exciting mystery that uncovers many essential problems.

This is the most cliff-hanging series that you'll ever read. I recommend this to anyone who's not into a lot of mystery. If you're like that, then this is for you. This series has 12 books. I've read #1- Wolf Stalker, #2- Cliff-Hanger, #4- Rage of Fire, #6- Ghost Horses, and now, #3- Deadly Waters. Guess what? This isn't a series that you have to read in order. You can see that I haven't been. So, you should try out #3- Deadly Waters, and all the other, Mysteries in our National Parks.

Action-packed excitement with many strong characters........2002-10-04

I am a lower elementary teacher (first through third grades) and each week we have storytime twice a week. Last year, I read this book to my students representing the "mystery" genre. Not only is this a wonderful read-aloud book for any age group, but it is a perfect mystery as every single chapter ends with everyone wanting to know what happens next. I had every student on the "edge of their seats" so to speak, which is a very challenging thing to do when you have such a diverse group.

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