Brickell Key Park Brickell Sloughs or free-flowing channels of water develop in between sawgrass prairies Sloughs are about 3 feet (0.91 m) deeper than sawgrass marshes and may stay flooded for at least 11 months out of the year and sometimes multiple years in a row Aquatic animals such as turtles alligators snakes and fish thrive in sloughs; they usually feed on aquatic invertebrates Submerged and floating plants grow here such as bladderwort (Utricularia) waterlily (Nymphaeaceae) and spatterdock (Nuphar lutea) Major sloughs in the Everglades system include the Shark River Slough flowing out to Florida Bay Lostmans River Slough bordering the Big Cypress and Taylor Slough in the eastern Everglades, A Panoramic View of Concourses G and H as well as the new Concourse J from the south, Since the development of the federal NASA Merritt Island launch sites on Cape Canaveral (most notably Kennedy Space Center) in 1962 Florida has developed a sizable aerospace industry. FIU belongs to the 12-campus State University System of Florida and is one of Florida's primary graduate research universities awarding over 3,400 graduate and professional degrees annually the university offers 191 programs of study with more than 280 majors in 23 colleges and schools FIU offers many graduate programs including architecture business administration engineering law and medicine offering 81 master's degrees 34 doctoral degrees and 3 professional degrees, Historical population Florida's universities have a number of collegiate sport programs Major college football programs include the Florida State Seminoles and Miami Hurricanes of the Atlantic Coast Conference and the Florida Gators of the Southeastern Conference Since 1996 Florida has added four additional programs to the ranks of Division I FCS: UCF Knights South Florida Bulls Florida Atlantic Owls and FIU Panthers. . University of Miami Nature Coast, With the construction of the Concourse J extension in the 2000s the H2 commuter satellite was demolished in 2007 with the opening of the South Terminal's immigration and customs facilities the third floor of Concourse H was closed off and converted into a "sterile circulation" area for arriving international passengers Gates H4 H6 H8 and H10 were made capable of handling international arrivals and they currently serve Aeromexico Air France Alitalia KLM and Swiss Simultaneously headhouse gates H16 H17 H18 and H20 were closed to allow for the construction of a second parallel taxiway leading to the new Concourse J, A 2007 survey by geographers Ary J Lamme and Raymond K Oldakowski found that the "Glades" has emerged as a distinct vernacular region of Florida it comprises the interior areas and southernmost Gulf Coast of South Florida largely corresponding to the Everglades itself It is one of the most sparsely populated areas of the state. In July 2011 Downtown's office vacancy rate was reported at 21% dropping from a high of 26% in mid-2010 Downtown also reported an average commercial asking rate of $36.33 making it the eighth-highest in the nation after Manhattan Washington DC Fairfield County Connecticut San Francisco and Boston, The University offers more than 100 degree programs from bachelors to doctorate in a number of areas including: business social work law nursing health sciences education and liberal arts programs Consisting of six schools and two colleges Barry University has more than 7,000 students a campus of 54 buildings a branch campus in Tallahassee a law school in Orlando and 50,000 alumni Student to faculty ratio is 12:1, Homestead 60,512 31,909 Miami-Dade Human habitation in the southern portion of the Florida peninsula dates to 15,000 years ago Before European colonization the region was dominated by the native Calusa and Tequesta tribes With Spanish colonization both tribes declined gradually during the following two centuries the Seminole formed from mostly Creek people who had been warring to the North assimilated other peoples and created a new culture after being forced from northern Florida into the Everglades during the Seminole Wars of the early 19th century After adapting to the region they were able to resist removal by the United States Army!
. . . . Miami Modern Architecture or MiMo a style that originated in Miami in the 1950s as seen in the Bacardi Building in Midtown built in 1963 and dedicated as a historic site in 2009, The Miami Herald sponsors several community involvement projects such as those detailed below, The land seemed to inspire extreme reactions of both wonder or hatred During the Second Seminole War an army surgeon wrote "It is in fact a most hideous region to live in a perfect paradise for Indians alligators serpents frogs and every other kind of loathsome reptile." in 1897 explorer Hugh Willoughby spent eight days canoeing with a party from the mouth of the Harney River to the Miami River He sent his observations to the New Orleans Times-Democrat Willoughby described the water as healthy and wholesome with numerous springs and 10,000 alligators "more or less" in Lake Okeechobee the party encountered thousands of birds near the Shark River "killing hundreds but they continued to return" Willoughby pointed out that much of the rest of the country had been explored and mapped except for this part of Florida writing "(w)e have a tract of land one hundred and thirty miles long and seventy miles wide that is as much unknown to the white man as the heart of Africa.".
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