. The idea of a national park for the Everglades was pitched in 1928 when a Miami land developer named Ernest F Coe established the Everglades Tropical National Park Association it had enough support to be declared a national park by Congress in 1934 it took another 13 years to be dedicated on December 6 1947 One month before the dedication of the park a former editor from the Miami Herald and freelance writer named Marjory Stoneman Douglas released her first book titled the Everglades: River of Grass After researching the region for five years she described the history and ecology of the South Florida in great detail She characterized the Everglades as a river instead of a stagnant swamp the last chapter was titled "The Eleventh Hour" and warned that the Everglades were dying although it could be reversed. ! Bloomberg Businessweek ranked the Landon Undergraduate School of Business in 2012 11th in Operations Management and 99th for Accounting, Freedom Tower Hurricane season officially runs from June 1 through November 30 although hurricanes can develop outside that period the most likely time for South Florida to be hit is during the peak of the Cape Verde season mid-August through the end of September Due to its location between two major bodies of water known for tropical activity South Florida is also statistically the most likely major area to be struck by a hurricane in the world trailed closely by Nassau Bahamas and Havana Cuba Many hurricanes have affected the metropolis including Betsy in 1965 Andrew in 1992 Irene in 1999 Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma in 2005 and Irma in 2017 in addition a tropical depression in October 2000 passed over the city causing record rainfall and flooding Locally the storm is credited as the No Name Storm of 2000 though the depression went on to become Tropical Storm Leslie upon entering the Atlantic Ocean. Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts the second-largest performing arts center in the U.S. Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike (SR 821): Florida's Turnpike mainline (SR 91)/Miami Gardens to U.S Route 1/Florida City. The CATS Shuttle connects University Park from the Graham Center bus stop and the Engineering and Computer Sciences Building to the Engineering Center on Flagler Street and 107th Avenue the CATS Shuttle is free and runs roughly every 15 minutes between 6 a.m to 11 p.m Monday through Friday the Golden Panther Express connects the Biscayne Bay Campus to University Park it runs from 6 a.m to 11 p.m Monday through Friday and costs $2.50 each way the Golden Panther Express departs from the Graham Center bus stop at the main campus and the Academic 1 bus stop at the Biscayne Bay Campus. .
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David A Kubat