Miami Florida Business directory 11.4 Cycling and walking Wellington Capture of Atlantic north-west cod in million tons Fire is an important element in the natural maintenance of the Everglades the majority of fires are caused by lightning strikes from thunderstorms during the wet season Their effects are largely superficial and serve to foster specific plant growth: sawgrass will burn above water but the roots are preserved underneath Fire in the sawgrass marshes serves to keep out larger bushes and trees and releases nutrients from decaying plant matter more efficiently than decomposition Whereas in the wet season dead plant matter and the tips of grasses and trees are burned in the dry season the fire may be fed by organic peat and burn deeply destroying root systems Fires are confined by existing water and rainfall it takes approximately 225 years for one foot (.30 m) of peat to develop but in some locations the peat is less dense than it should be for the 5,000 years of the Everglades' existence Scientists indicate fire as the cause; it is also cited as the reason for the black color of Everglades muck Layers of charcoal have been detected in the peat in portions of the Everglades that indicate the region endured severe fires for years at a time although this trend seems to have abated since the last occurrence in 940 BCE. 4 Railroad access, 4.4 Urban planning AstraZeneca's Latin American headquarters, Belle Glade Central Bay is the largest part of the bay It is separated from the Atlantic Ocean by the Safety Valve it has been adversely affected primarily by bulkheading urban runoff discharged by canals and the loss of natural fresh water flow. . A cross section of fresh water ecosystems in the Everglades with relative average water depths, Downtown is served by the Miami Metrorail at Historic Overtown/Lyric Theatre Government Center and Brickell stations accessible from Broward and Palm Beach counties via Tri-Rail transfer station the Metro connects to the Downtown Metromover which encompasses 22 stations on the clockwise Inner (or Downtown) loop and counterclockwise Brickell and Omni branch loops Government Center station is Downtown's main station and allows for transfers to all Metromover loops Metrorail trains and Metrobus lines at the Stephen P Clark Government Center.
. MLB Baseball player At least three airplanes have crashed in the Everglades including: Northwest Airlines Flight 705 (in 1963) Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 (1972) and ValuJet Flight 592 (1996), Miami Marlins Baseball 1993 Major League Baseball Marlins Park World Series (2) (1997 2003). Tri-Rail fare zone boundary In 1993 the first dredge of PortMiami occurred deepening it to 42 feet in 2006 a $40 million project to expand the South Harbor finished in 2011 a project to reconnect PortMiami to the mainland via railroad began in 2013 a dredging project began to deepen the harbors around PortMiami from 44 to 52 feet in April 2019 the Miami-Dade Tourism and Ports Committee approved a deal for Royal Caribbean Cruises to build a new office and parking garage on Dodge Island. After closing Bay Visa Housing to students and long-term leasing the facility to RCL for employee training FIU is developing BayView Student Housing on the BBC campus BBC's first on-campus new housing in 30+ years will house 408 students in a high rise overlooking Biscayne Bay, British surveyor John Gerard de Brahm who mapped the coast of Florida in 1773 called the area "River Glades" Both Marjory Stoneman Douglas and linguist Wallace McMullen suggest that cartographers substituted "Ever" for "River".[clarification needed] the name "Everglades" first appeared on a map in 1823 although it was also spelled as "Ever Glades" as late as 1851 the Seminole call it Pahokee meaning "Grassy Water." the region was labeled "Pa-hai-okee" on a U.S military map from 1839 although it had earlier been called "Ever Glades" throughout the Second Seminole War; Contents From 2007 to 2016 FIU ranked 1st in the State University System of Florida in energy conservation and sustainability.
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