Everglades University

. . She tried to persuade railroad magnate Henry Flagler to expand his rail line the Florida East Coast Railway southward to the area but he initially declined in December 1894 Florida was struck by a freeze that destroyed virtually the entire citrus crop in the northern half of the state a few months later on the night of February 7 1895 the northern part of Florida was hit by another freeze that wiped out the remaining crops and the new trees Unlike most of the rest of the state the Miami area was unaffected Tuttle wrote to Flagler again asking him to visit the area and to see it for himself Flagler sent James E Ingraham to investigate and he returned with a favorable report and a box of orange blossoms to show that the area had escaped the frost Flagler followed up with his own visit and concluded at the end of his first day that the area was ripe for expansion He made the decision to extend his railroad to Miami and build a resort hotel. Concourse F dates back to 1959 and was originally known as Concourse 3 Like Concourses D and E it received renovations in the mid-1960s and was largely rebuilt from 1986 to 1988 the gates at the far end of the pier were demolished and replaced by new widebody Gates F10-F23 all of which were capable of processing international arrivals the departure lounges for Gates F3 F5 F7 and F9 were also rebuilt and these also became international gates Currently the concourse retains a distinctly 1980s feel and is part of the Central Terminal area the airport authority plans to maintain the concourse until 2036. Invertebrates: carpenter ants termites American cockroach Africanized bees the Miami blue butterfly and the grizzled mantis, North Perry Airport HWO KHWO Broward (70) 2.56! 4.6% Colombian School of Computing and Information Sciences, The Miami metropolitan area also known as the Greater Miami Area or South Florida is the 73rd largest metropolitan area in the world and the seventh-largest metropolitan area in the United States Located in southern Florida with 6,198,782 inhabitants as of 2018 the Miami metropolitan area is the most populous in Florida and second largest in the southeastern United States it extends about 120 miles from north to south. 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.

The American Airlines Arena home of the Miami Heat (28.6) 83.9 The island is mainly occupied by the Virginia Key Beach Park Miami Seaquarium Miami-Dade's Central District Wastewater Treatment Plant and the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science Other facilities include the former Miami Marine Stadium the National Marine Fisheries Service Southeast Fisheries Science Center and an office of the U.S National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Miami Florida Business directory Tamarac 60,427 55,588 Broward! . Miami metropolitan area History In March 1980 the first black Dade County schools superintendent Dr Johnny L Jones was convicted on grand theft charges linked to gold-plated plumbing His conviction was overturned on appeal and on July 3 1986 the state attorney Janet Reno announced that Jones would not be retried on these charges However in a separate case he was convicted on misdemeanor charges of soliciting perjury and witness tampering and received a two-year jail sentence, The Miami metropolitan area contains all or part of nine Congressional districts: the 18th 20th 21st 22nd 23rd 24th 25th 26th and 27th districts as of 2017 (the 113th Congress) the Cook Partisan Voting Index listed four as being Republican-leaning: the 18th 25th 26th and 27th with the 25th being the most Republican-leaning at R+5 and five as being Democratic-leaning: the 20th 21st 22nd 23rd and 24th with the 24th being the most Democratic-leaning at D+34 making it the ninth-most Democratic-leaning district in the nation!