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Author: L. L. Gaddy
Publisher: Totally Outdoors Imaging Incorporated
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9780615721088
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA guide and review of the wealth of nature in Congaree Swamp, an old-growth floodplain forest just 20 miles south of Columbia, South Carolilna. A picture books with tables, species lists, and text by two naturalists who have spent more than 40 years of their lives in the swamp.
Author: Mark Kinzer
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 2017-06-15
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 1611177677
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom exploitation to preservation, the complex history of one of the Southeast's most important natural areas and South Carolina's only national park Located at the confluence of the Congaree and Wateree Rivers in central South Carolina, Congaree National Park protects the nation's largest intact expanse of old-growth bottomland hardwood forest. Modern visitors to the park enjoy a pristine landscape that seems ancient and untouched by human hands, but in truth its history is far different. In Nature's Return, Mark Kinzer examines the successive waves of inhabitants, visitors, and landowners of this region by synthesizing information from property and census records, studies of forest succession, tree-ring analyses, slave narratives, and historical news accounts. Established in 1976, Congaree National Park contains within its boundaries nearly twenty-seven thousand acres of protected uplands, floodplains, and swamps. Once exploited by humans for farming, cattle grazing, plantation agriculture, and logging, the park area is now used gently for recreation and conservation. Although the impact of farming, grazing, and logging in the park was far less extensive than in other river swamps across the Southeast, it is still evident to those who know where to look. Cultivated in corn and cotton during the nineteenth century, the land became the site of extensive logging operations soon after the Civil War, a practice that continued intermittently into the late twentieth century. From burning canebrakes to clearing fields and logging trees, inhabitants of the lower Congaree valley have modified the floodplain environment both to ensure their survival and, over time, to generate wealth. In this they behaved no differently than people living along other major rivers in the South Atlantic Coastal Plain. Today Congaree National Park is a forest of vast flats and winding sloughs where champion trees dot the landscape. Indeed its history of human use and conservation make it a valuable laboratory for the study not only of flora and fauna but also of anthropology and modern history. As the impact of human disturbance fades, the Congaree's stature as one of the most important natural areas in the eastern United States only continues to grow.
Author: John E. Cely
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2017-08-28
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 1439662878
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLocated in central South Carolina, only a few miles from the capital city of Columbia, Congaree National Park is the largest old-growth bottomland hardwood forest left in the country and one of the most biologically diverse parks within the national park system. Nearly 100 species of trees have been documented within the park, almost as many as in the entire Pacific Northwest. The park has one of the tallest hardwood forests anywhere in the temperate world and features numerous trees of record-setting proportions, a distinction that has earned it the name "Forest of Champions." This book discusses the early history of the area that later became the Congaree National Park, shows efforts to protect it from logging by a citizen's grassroots campaign, traces the park's early beginnings and development, and illustrates some of the park's notable flora and fauna.
Author: Elizabeth J. Almlie
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Published: 2010
Total Pages: 148
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This thesis will examine the way the proponents, opponents, and park studies understood and discussed the history and cultural resources of the Congaree Swamp. During the early advocacy of the 1960s and through the planning for the 1988 boundary expansion, proponents of creating a preserve characterized history as distant and having little physical impact on their natural wilderness landscape. Opponents alternatively focused on land uses of hunting, fishing, and logging that, while historic, had also continued through that point in time. For them, creating a preserve landscape would change the landscape they knew through those activities. Studies undertaken by the National Park Service combined the requirements of cultural resource management legislation with the knowledge of park advocates. As time passed, Congaree Swamp National Monument (later Congaree National Park) increasingly has devoted more time and resources to the historical subjects brought up by those who had opposed the park. At present, and into the future, the park has the opportunity to look at the Swamp's past in an interdisciplinary way, as an environmental history of both cultural and natural resources."--Leaf iii.
Author: John Cely
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Published: 2012-12
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780615562599
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Funding provided by: Dorothy and Edward Kendall Foundation, Richland County Conservation Commission, Friends of Congaree Swamp."
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Parks and Recreation
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 192
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on National Parks and Recreation
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 236
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 114
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 1060
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Chris Wilhelm
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2022-08-01
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0820362409
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book chronicles the creation of Everglades National Park, the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States. This effort, which spanned 1928 to 1958, was of central importance to the later emergence of modern environmentalism. Prior to the park’s creation, the Everglades was seen as a reviled and useless swamp, unfit for typical recreational or development projects. The region’s unusual makeup also made it an unlikely candidate to become a national park, as it had none of the sweeping scenic vistas or geological monuments found in other nationally protected areas. Park advocates drew on new ideas concerning the value of biota and ecology, the importance of wilderness, and the need to protect habitats, marine ecosystems, and plant life to redefine the Everglades. Using these ideas, the Everglades began to be recognized as an ecologically valuable and fragile wetland—and thus a region in need of protective status. While these new ideas foreshadowed the later emergence of modern environmentalism, tourism and the economic desires of Florida’s business and political elites also impacted the park’s future. These groups saw the Everglades’ unique biology and ecology as a foundation on which to build a tourism empire. They connected the Everglades to Florida’s modernization and commercialization, hoping the park would help facilitate the state’s transformation into the Sunshine State. Political conservatives welcomed federal power into Florida so long as it brought economic growth. Yet, even after the park’s creation, conservative landowners successfully fought to limit the park and saw it as a threat to their own economic freedoms. Today, a series of levees on the park’s eastern border marks the line between urban and protected areas, but development into these areas threatens the park system. Rising sea levels caused by global warming are another threat to the future of the park. The battle to save the swamp’s biodiversity continues, and Everglades Park stands at the center of ongoing restoration efforts.
