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Florida's Mangroves: A Slightly Salty History
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Florida's Mangroves: A Slightly Salty History

Author(s): Thomas Kenning
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They rise, limbs interlocked like a mighty phalanx engaged in a slow northward march along Florida’s coast. Collectively, they are battered and diminished after a century-long struggle.

Yet, dutiful and resilient, they stand strong against hurricanes and storm surge, as well as their deadliest foe, the dreaded South Florida real estate developer. They are mangroves—a truly remarkable and underappreciated form of plant life.

Mangroves are nursery to dozens of species of commercially harvested fish; important anchors for the filter feeders who keep our waters clean; more effective than any seawall in halting coastal erosion; and bulwark against destructive waves and wind alike. What else do you need?

Florida’s Mangroves: A Slightly Salty History lays out the glorious past, tenuous present, and hazy future of Florida’s mangrove forests. Reporting from the Ten Thousand Islands to Cedar Key, from Weedon Island Preserve to Flamingo Point at the southern tip of Everglades National Park, and incorporating 140 lavish photos, historian Thomas Kenning offers a lively primer on the way that human activity in Florida has shaped—and, in turn, has been shaped by—the state’s great, hopefully not late, mangrove forests.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)
Thomas Kenning is an author, educator, and adventurer. He has written extensively about Washington, DC for his own blogs and on a freelance basis. Mr. Kenning is the creator of the award-winning Openendedsocialstudies.org, a library of free lesson plans and travel writing designed to foster a sense of wonder about the world and our place in it. When he is not travelling to some far-flung corner of the Earth, he resides with his wife and daughter (a DC native!), planning his next improbable adventure and trying to leave the planet a little bit nicer than he found it.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781634993494
FORMAT: Paperback
PUBLISHER: America Through Time
DATE: 9/27/2021
STATE: Florida
SERIES: America Through Time
IMAGES: 139
PAGES: 96
DIMENSIONS: 6.5 (w) x 9.25 (h)
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