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Synopsis
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

Progressive Farmer's Sportman's Gear May/June 2001
"This has become one of my most-used resource books on plants and wildlife."

The Forum Spring 2001
"It is a must-have reference work for vegetation managers in the southeastern United States."

Forest Science May 2000
"[P]rovides information critical to the management and conservation of forest vegetation and wildlife . . . practical in field, classroom, and boardroom applications."

Southeastern Naturalist May 1, 2006
"Packed with 650 glossy color photos, this field guide will be useful to students, landowners, and anyone interested in plant identification."

Alabama Wildlife Federation Magazine Spring 2001
"In this ...field guide the authors help readers to understand the intricate and often unexpected interrelationships between flora and fauna."

Library Journal
Unimaginable numbers of birds, over a million alligators, 400 American crocodiles, and fewer than 100 Florida panthers roam the Florida Everglades. In this fragile landscape, survival depends on a precise balance of nutrients, salinity, and water levels that is now imperiled by Florida's politically powerful real estate and agribusiness interests. Levin, a naturalist and journalist, profiles the natural history, geology, and climate of this unique ecosystem and the passionate scientists who don their snake boots and fight to preserve it. His writing style is lyrical and engaging, but the text is grounded in extensive research that is detailed in a useful bibliography. Like Marjory Stoneman Douglas, author of the classic The Everglades: River of Grass, Levin is an experienced journalist with a knack for making science accessible to a popular audience. Highly recommended in public and academic libraries where ecology is of interest.-Kathy Arsenault, Univ. of South Florida at St. Petersburg Lib. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information

From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. In recent decades, severe droughts in New England and the Mid-Atlantic states, along with shrinking aquifers, dried-up lakes and sluggish rivers in the Southeast have induced bitter East Coast fights over what was once an exclusively Western concern: water scarcity. What happened? Barnett, the long-time environmental reporter for Florida Trend magazine, answers that question in a rigorous look at the relentless pressure of development and burgeoning human populations on natural water supplies, particularly in the wetlands of Florida. Chapter by chapter, Barnett documents the enlarging sinkholes, loss of ancient lakes, pollution of water tables and river systems, aquifer mining and negligent politics that have led to Florida's perpetual water crisis-including a disastrous shift in weather patterns. Considering such crises elsewhere in the U.S., Barnett finds that successful allocation agreements are rare, lessons learned are quickly forgotten and an ever-growing population spells more trouble to come. Though it may lack popular appeal, this comprehensive and well-referenced volume does feature appearances from well-known figures like Walt Disney, Jeb Bush and Hurricane Katrina, and should become vital reading for citizens and policymakers as global concerns over water scarcity grow.
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