Everglades National Park

Despite their awe-inspiring presence and crucial role in marine ecosystems, sharks often find themselves at the center of controversy, especially when it comes to their interactions with humans in national parks.

While shark attacks are rare, certain national parks along coastlines, such as Everglades National Park, are home to these majestic but potentially dangerous creatures.

Swimmers and surfers should heed warnings and take necessary precautions.

The National Park Service says swimming and snorkeling are prohibited in all canals, ponds, lakes and boat basins within Everglades National Park.

If you do find yourself swimming in an area prone to sharks, stay close to the shore.

Swim, paddle and surf in groups.

Avoid swimming at dawn or dusk when the lighting is low.

Adhere to all signage at beaches and follow lifeguard instructions.

The logic is sound, but applying that rule rigidly can lead to catastrophic injustice if the government weaponizes time.

I want to highlight a deep dive from our primary sources, Professor Gideon Kanner's exhaustive analysis of the Everglades National Park expansion.

This is a masterclass in the intersection of bureaucratic delay and constitutional rights.

The Everglades narrative exposes the absolute limits of the scope of the project rule.

In nineteen fifty-eight, the United States Congress officially enacted legislation announcing the massive expansion of the Everglades National Park.

The affected private lands were now legally within the scope of the project.

But Congress, in its bureaucratic inertia, failed to appropriate the actual funds to purchase the land.

If your small addition doesn't generate massive new bike traffic, the city's demand is an unconstitutional exaction.

But that changed in a few years.

It took years, actually, when we started taking people to the Everglades National Park, which was virtually in our backyard, an hour away from Miami.

And many people who had been there, lived there their entire lives, had never ever heard about it or seen it.

But to get to your point, I think that there are very, very many more people now enjoying the great outdoors.

If you know where to go, you can see alligators quite easily.

And if you're somebody that just wants to admire alligators from a safe distance, Everglades National Park is an awesome place to explore where you're almost guaranteed to see dozens of alligators on a daily basis.

As long as you're out there at the right time of day when they're out basking.

And of course, if you're getting near a body of water, you have to be gator wise and realize that like, hey, there is a dominant predator in the environment.

And the very first version of that map wasn't even statewide.

It showed all of the highest priority corridors in the FEGN from Flamingo and Everglades National Park, north to Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, which is just a little bit of Okefenoke's in Florida, but the rest is in Georgia.

And then he, Mallory, Dimit, and Joe Guthrie, along with a filmmaker, I think it was Elam Stolzfus.

Yeah.

It's Linnell Weir-Bickey.

I could tell you where you could have found those crocodiles.

You have to go to the Flamingo Boat Ramp at Everglades National Park.

As for alligators, pretty much anywhere on the road into Flamingo at Everglades National Park.

The search also involved ground teams, helicopters, drones, and police dogs, but no trace of Gordon was ever found and he remains missing.

Number 8 Roger Sawyer 67-year-old Roger Sawyer was last seen at a remote campground in the Flamingo area at Everglades National Park in Monroe County, Florida, on March 5, 2011.

Roger is from Oregon and had taken a cross-country trip with his family in a motorhome.

Some of Roger's relatives went to the visitor's center, leaving Roger and his wife behind.

A pin from his cell phone was recorded that showed the phone was about 10 miles away from a cell phone tower in Yucca Valley.

There was only the one tower in the area, so they were not able to pinpoint the exact location of the phone, but extensive searches of all areas about 10 miles from the tower were conducted to no avail.

about 100 search and rescue personnel along with volunteers from joshua tree national park riverside county and the san bernardino county sheriff's offices participated in the intensive searches sent dogs were also deployed along with helicopters and searchers on horseback but no trace of a wasco was ever found number four jacob oliveri On August 24, 2011, 23-year-old Texas resident Jacob Oliveri drove his 1998 Isuzu truck to the Pine Glades Lake trailhead in the Everglades National Park for a small hike.

Video surveillance showed him entering the park but never leaving.

Number eight, Roger Sawyer.

67-year-old Roger Sawyer was last seen at a remote campground in the Flamingo area at Everglades National Park in Monroe County, Florida, on March 5, 2011.

Roger is from Oregon and had taken a cross-country trip with his family in a motorhome.

Some of Roger's relatives went to the visitor's center, leaving Roger and his wife behind.

Scent dogs were also deployed along with helicopters and searchers on horseback, but no trace of a Wasco was ever found.

Number four, Jacob Oliveri.

On August 24, 2011, 23-year-old Texas resident Jacob Oliveri drove his 1998 Isuzu truck to the Pine Glades Lake trailhead in the Everglades National Park for a small hike.

Video surveillance showed him entering the park but never leaving.

Welcome to our latest video.

In this episode, we take a look at the history, legends, and disappearances in Everglades National Park.

Join us.

Everglades National Park is located just outside Miami, Florida and is home to the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States.

The park covers about 1.5 million acres of land and hosts one of the most diverse ecosystems currently found nowhere else in the world.

It is home to an abundance of wildlife including rare and endangered species like manatees, the American alligator and the elusive Florida panther.

In 1948, Congress approved the Central and Southern Florida Project for flood control and other purposes, which divided the Everglades into basins.

In the northern Everglades were water conservation areas and the Everglades Agricultural Area bordering to the south of Lake Okeechobee.