The Everglades: an environmental history

pt. 1 A changing landscape; Rock, water, fire

The mature system

pt. 2 Changing peoples; Paleo and archaic indians

The Calusa

The Spanish

pt. 3 The derelict land; The making of a derelick land, 1513-1714

The custard apple swamp

The everglades trough

The Miami Rocklands

The Mangrove fringe

The derelict system

pt. 4 Drainage; Nineteenth-century prelude

The progressive drainage effort, 1903-1913

Denouement

pt. 5 Drainage reconsidered and pioneer settlement, 1912-1924

Drainage reconsidered, 1912-1913

Pioneer settlement, 1883-1924

pt. 6 Perfecting the developmental system; Drainage in the era of the Randolph Plan, 1913-1928

The corps of engineers, 1926-1947

A too-dry land, 1938-1948

Comprehensive water control begins in 1948

pt. 7 The fruits of development; Soil productivity

Land consolidation, 1920-1940

Labor

Everglades agricultural area, 1950 to the present.