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EVERGLADES ROADS

 Ingraham Highway
 
 Tamiami Trail  Alligator Alley

Roads opened the interior to settlement, development, and tourism, as well as speeding travel. They became dams, impeding water flow from north to south, and boundaries separating development from wetlands from east to west.

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Exploration Flood Control Sugar Everglades National Park
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Tourism Everglades Restoration Upper Everglades Settlements  

 

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