The Florida Department of Environmental Protection is the Florida government agency responsible for environmental protection, mainly working to improve the quality of the local environment and to furt
Marjory Stoneman Douglas Building in Tallahassee, the largest of the agency's headquarters buildings.
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The Everglades is a natural region of flooded grasslands in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Florida, comprising the southern half of a large drainage basin within the Neotropical realm. The
Florida Department of Environmental Protection
…it oversees 175 Florida State Parks and recreation areas, greenways, trails, wildlife management areas and restores the environmental quality of the Everglades. The DEP is in charge of the Florida Reef system, from Biscayne National Park in Miami-Dade County to the St. Lucie Inlet in Martin County, with its…
The most prominent feature of the Everglades are the sawgrass prairies found across the region.
Hurricane Charley in 2004 moving ashore on South Florida's Gulf of Mexico coast
A storm over the Shark River in the Everglades, 1966
Uneven limestone formations in an Everglades sawgrass prairie