The same year the park was dedicated two hurricanes and the wet season caused 100 inches (250 cm) to fall on South Florida Although there were no human casualties agricultural interests lost approximately $59 million in 1948 Congress approved the Central and Southern Florida Project for Flood Control and Other Purposes (C&SF) which divided the Everglades into basins in the northern Everglades were Water Conservation Areas (WCAs) and the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA) bordering to the south of Lake Okeechobee in the southern Everglades was Everglades National Park Levees and pumping stations bordered each WCA and released water in dryer times or removed it and pumped it to the ocean in times of flood the WCAs took up approximately 37 percent of the original Everglades the C&SF constructed over 1,000 miles (1,600 km) of canals and hundreds of pumping stations and levees within three decades During the 1950s and 1960s the Miami metropolitan area grew four times as fast as the rest of the nation Between 1940 and 1965 6 million people moved to South Florida: 1,000 people moved to Miami every week Developed areas between the mid-1950s and the late 1960s quadrupled Much of the water reclaimed from the Everglades was sent to newly developed areas. Under his leadership FIU heralded in an era of unprecedented growth and prestige with all facets of university undergoing major transformations Physically the university tripled in size and its enrollment grew to nearly 40,000 During his 23 years as president the school established the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine the FIU College of Law the FIU School of Architecture and the Robert Stempel School of Public Health Also during his tenure endowment grew from less than $2 million to over $100 million, 7 Broadcasting San Juan Campus, The Florida panther is close to extinction a record 23 were killed in 2009 mainly by automobile collisions leaving about 100 individuals in the wild the Center for Biological Diversity and others have therefore called for a special protected area for the panther to be established Manatees are also dying at a rate higher than their reproduction American flamingos are rare to see in Florida due to being hunted in the 1900s where it was to a point considered completely extirpated Now the flamingos are reproducing toward making a comeback to South Florida since it is adamantly considered native to the state and also are now being protected. . 8 Law and government The Miami River in 1935!
(25.8) 85.3 Southeast Financial Center the tallest skyscraper built in the 1980s office boom The AU Gay Straight Alliance is an organization dedicated to educating the entire campus on LGBTIQ issues Their goal is to create awareness of and solidarity with LGBTIQ groups among the general university population. . Many beach towns are popular tourist destinations particularly during winter and spring break Twenty-three million tourists visited Florida beaches in 2000 spending $22 billion the public has a right to beach access under the public trust doctrine but some areas have access effectively blocked by private owners for a long distance.
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