Another sub-plot in the firm focuses on Pee Wee's attempt to exact revenge for the Tommy and Billy's " Cherry Forever " practical joke in the first movie in which Pee Wee was abandoned in the Everglades running naked along a deserted road only to be " pulled over " by Officer Jarvis and his partner during an otherwise lonely and uneventful patrol.

Everglades restoration received $ 96 million of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Mack was also instrumental in passage of the landmark Everglades Restoration Act, which was signed into law on December 11, 2000.

In the United States, an introduced population of Burmese pythons, Python molurus bivittatus, has existed as an invasive species in the Everglades National Park since the late 1990s.

* 1996 – After the aircraft's departure from Miami, Florida, a fire started by improperly handled oxygen canisters in the cargo hold of Atlanta-bound ValuJet Flight 592 causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades killing all 110 on board.

* May 11 – After takeoff from Miami, Florida, a fire started by improperly handled oxygen canisters in the cargo hold of Atlanta-bound ValuJet Flight 592, causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 on board.

Impressed by the Army Air Force in November 1942 for use as a VIP transport and designated a UC-103, it crashed in the southern Florida Everglades in early 1943.

Survivors Sarah, John, McDermott, and Miguel arrive in Fort Myers, Florida, encounter a zombie horde, and escape to an underground Army base in the Everglades, where a small group of scientists search for a way to stop or reverse the zombie process, assisted by a skeleton crew of Army soldiers.

Of developable land in Broward County, approximately, the majority is built upon, as the urban area is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and the Everglades National Park to the west.

The largest single environmental restoration project in the world — the Everglades Restoration — is managed by SAD.

Southern third of the Florida Peninsula, showing the area managed by the South Florida Water Management District, Lake Okeechobee, the Everglades, Big Cypress National Preserve, the South Florida Metropolitan Area, the Ten Thousand Islands, and Florida Bay.

The Everglades are shaped by water and fire, experiencing frequent flooding in the wet season and drought in the dry season.

The Seminoles, a tribe of Creeks who assimilated other peoples into their own, made their living in the Everglades region after being forced there by the U. S. military in the Seminole Wars of the 19th century.

In 2000, a plan to restore the Everglades was approved by Congress ; to date, it is the most expensive and comprehensive environmental repair attempt in history.

This map made by the U. S. military shows the term " Everglades " was in use by 1857.

The first written record of the Everglades was on Spanish maps made by cartographers who had not seen the land.

Graham announced that by 2000 the Everglades would be restored as closely as possible to its pre-drainage state.

The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan ( CERP ) proposed more than 60 construction projects over 30 years to store water that was being flushed into the ocean, in reservoirs, underground aquifers, and abandoned quarries ; add more Stormwater Treatment Areas to filter water that flowed into the lower Everglades ; regulate water released from pumping stations into local waterways and improve water released to Everglades National Park and Water Conservation Areas ; remove barriers to sheetflow by raising the Tamiami Trail and destroying the Miami Canal, and reuse wastewater for urban areas.

As a result of the stimulus package, a mile-long ( 1. 6 km ) bridge to replace the Tamiami Trail, a road that borders Everglades National Park to the north and has blocked water from reaching the southern Everglades, was begun by the Army Corps of Engineers in December 2009.

* The Everglades in Peril-slideshow by The New York Times

Currently, the Cruise Capital of the World is the Port of Miami, Florida, closely followed behind by Port Everglades, Florida and the Port of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

* 1941-Frederick C. Peters purchases for $ 25 per acre ; land had been owned by the Everglades Plantation Company ( origin of the city's name ); Broward Boulevard is a two-lane road.

Chokoloskee Island is connected to Everglades City on the mainland by a causeway.

After Governor Bob Graham initiated the Save Our Everglades campaign in 1983, the first section of the canal was backfilled in 1986.

Governor Charlie Crist announced the same month that $ 50 million of state funds would be earmarked for Everglades restoration.

However Governor Rick Scott has stated that he is open to expanded drilling in the Everglades.

In 1995, Chiles published the commission's findings in a report that related the degradation of the Everglades ecosystems to the lower quality of life in urban areas.

This especially applies to the Florida Duck ( Mazourek & Gray 1994 ), in the fairly small range of which rampant habitat destruction due to urbanization and draining of wetlands has taken place in the last decades ; this in combination with climate change affecting the Everglades could be sufficient to cause the Florida Duck to decline to a point where hunting would have to be restricted or prohibited ( McCracken et al.

* In 1994, Port Everglades becomes an enterprise fund governed by Broward County.

* 1990s: The Greater Fort Lauderdale / Broward County Convention Center opened at Northport, two parking garages were completed and on November 22, 1994, Port Everglades ' governance was transferred from the Port Authority to the Broward County government.

For comparison, a fish consumption advisory was issued at the Florida Everglades after water there was found to contain 1 nanogram per liter.

It was originally intended to be named Everglades County, but then-Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives Ion Farris amended the bill that established the county to be named after Broward.

It was named for the Florida Everglades.

Draining the Everglades was first suggested in 1848, but was not attempted until 1882.

The South Florida metropolitan area grew substantially at this time and Everglades water was diverted to cities.

Portions of the Everglades were transformed into farmland, where the primary crop was sugarcane.

When the construction of a large airport was proposed north of Everglades National Park, an environmental study predicted it would destroy the South Florida ecosystem.

The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan was signed into law, but the same divisive politics that had affected the region for the previous 50 years have compromised the plan.

The name " Everglades " first appeared on a map in 1823, although it was also spelled as " Ever Glades " as late as 1851.

" Draining the Everglades was suggested as early as 1837, and a resolution in Congress was passed in 1842 that prompted Secretary of Treasury Robert J. Walker to request those with experience in the Everglades to give their opinion on the possibility of drainage.

Land in the Everglades was being sold for $ 15 an acre a month after Broward died.

With the construction of canals, newly reclaimed Everglades land was promoted throughout the United States.

Rum-runners used the Everglades as a hiding spot during Prohibition ; it was so vast there were never enough law enforcement officers to patrol it.

Salt ocean water intruded into Miami's wells ; when the city brought in an expert to explain why, he discovered that the water in the Everglades was the area's groundwater — here, it appeared on the surface.

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.

The last chapter was titled, " The Eleventh Hour " and warned that the Everglades were dying, although it could be reversed.