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By 1913 the Seminole in the Everglades numbered no more than 325 They made a living by hunting and trading with white settlers and raised domesticated animals the Seminole made their villages in hardwood hammocks or pinelands had diets of hominy and coontie roots fish turtles venison and small game Their villages were not large due to the limited size of the hammocks Between the end of the last Seminole War and 1930 the people lived in relative isolation from the majority culture. However this boom began to falter due to building construction delays and overload on the transport system caused by an excess of bulky building materials on January 10 1926 the Prinz Valdemar an old Danish warship on its way to becoming a floating hotel ran aground and blocked Miami Harbor for nearly a month Already overloaded the three major railway companies soon declared an embargo on all incoming goods except food the cost of living had skyrocketed and finding an affordable place to live was nearly impossible This economic bubble was already collapsing when the catastrophic Great Miami Hurricane in 1926 swept through ending whatever was left of the boom the Category 4 storm was the 12th most costly and 12th most deadly to strike the United States during the 20th century According to the Red Cross there were 373 fatalities but other estimates vary due to the large number of people listed as "missing" Between 25,000 and 50,000 people were left homeless in the Miami area the Great Depression followed causing more than sixteen thousand people in Miami to become unemployed As a result a Civilian Conservation Corps camp was opened in the area. ! Calusa and Tequesta (31.4) 90.8 The arts also flourished while Maidique was at the helm with the university acquiring the Wolfsonian-FIU Museum on Miami Beach and building the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum on its main campus in athletics FIU made inroads in becoming a powerhouse athletic university during Maidique's time as president and he championed the eventual establishment of a NCAA football program Finally the school earned membership into Phi Beta Kappa the nation's oldest honor society, A turning point came for development in the Everglades at the proposal in the late 1960s for an expanded airport after Miami International Airport outgrew its capacities the new jetport was planned to be larger than O'Hare Dulles JFK and LAX airports combined,[citation needed] and the chosen location was 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Everglades National Park the first sentence of the U.S Department of Interior study of the environmental impact of the jetport read "Development of the proposed jetport and its attendant facilities . will inexorably destroy the south Florida ecosystem and thus the Everglades National Park" When studies indicated the proposed jetport would create 4,000,000 US gallons (15,000,000 L) of raw sewage a day and 10,000 short tons (9,100 t) of jet engine pollutants a year the project met staunch opposition the New York Times called it a "blueprint for disaster" and Wisconsin senator Gaylord Nelson wrote to President Richard Nixon voicing his opposition: "It is a test of whether or not we are really committed in this country to protecting our environment." Governor Claude Kirk withdrew his support for the project and Marjory Stoneman Douglas was persuaded at 79 years old to go on tour to give hundreds of speeches against it Nixon instead established Big Cypress National Preserve announcing it in the Special Message to the Congress Outlining the 1972 Environmental Program, After the watershed events of Hurricane Andrew in 1992 the state of Florida began investing in economic development through the Office of Trade Tourism and Economic Development Governor Jeb Bush realized that watershed events such as Andrew negatively impacted Florida's backbone industry of tourism severely the office was directed to target Medical/Bio-Sciences among others Three years later the Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) announced it had chosen Florida for its newest expansion in 2003 TSRI announced plans to establish a major science center in Palm Beach a 364,000 square feet (33,800 m2) facility on 100 acres (40 ha) which TSRI planned to occupy in 2006.

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