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Swamplife This page intentionally left blank SWAMPLIFE People, Gators, and Mangroves Entangled in the Everglades Laura A. Ogden A Quadrant Book UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS MINNEAPOLIS LONDON Quadrant, a joint initiative of the University of Minnesota Press and the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota, provides support for interdisciplinary scholarship within a new, more collaborative model of research and publication. Sponsored by Quadrant’s Environment, Culture, and Sustainability group (advisory board: Bruce Braun, Christine Marran, and Dan Philippon) and by the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota. Quadrant is generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. http://quadrant.umn.edu Chapter 5 was previously published as “Searching for Paradise in the Florida Ever- glades,” Cultural Geographies 15, no. 2 (2008): 207–29; reprinted by permission of Sage Publications, Inc.; all rights reserved. Copyright 2011 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 http://www.upress.umn.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ogden, Laura A. Swamplife : people, gators, and mangroves entangled in the Everglades / Laura A. Ogden. p. cm. A Quadrant Book. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8166-7026-0 (hc : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8166-7027-7 (pb : alk. paper) 1. Human ecology—Florida—Everglades National Park. 2. Mangrove ecology—Florida—Everglades National Park. 3. Everglades National Park (Fla.)— Social conditions. 4. Everglades National Park (Fla.)—Environmental conditions. I. Title. GF504.F6O44 2011 577.69'8270975939—dc22 2011003346 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer. 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 CONTENTS Map of Southern Florida and the Greater Everglades Watershed vii Map of Everglades National Park ix Acknowledgments xi 1 The Florida Everglades: An Entangled Landscape 1 The Queen of the Everglades 21 2 Landscape Ethnography and the Politics of Nature 25 The Notorious Ashley Gang 36 3 Earth, Fire, and Flesh: Territorial Refrains 43 The Theatrics of Everglades Outlaws 67 4 The Travels of Snakes, Mangroves, and Men 73 The Gang Vanishes into the Mysterious Swamp 91 5 Searching for Paradise in the Florida Everglades 95 The Story Doesn’t End with the Ambush on the Sebastian River Bridge 120 6 Alligator Conservation, Commodities, and Tactics of Subversion 125 Epilogue The Bill Ashley Jungles: Trace Impressions of a Forgotten Landscape 153 Notes 159 Index 179 This page intentionally left blank Lake ³ Kissimmee ¡¢ 95 Wauchula FortPierce Okeechobee Stuart Indiantown HobeSound Lake Okeechobee Palmdale CanalPoint WestPalmBeach Loxahatchee EvergladesAgricultural CorkscrewSwamp Area BoyntonBeach Sanctuary BigCypress Reservation BonitaSprings ¡¢ 75 FortLauderdale Naples BigCypress NationalPreserve MiccosukeeTribe MarcoIsland of£Indians (cid:91) Miami Chokoloskee 41 CoconutGrove Biscayne Bay EvergladesNational GulfofMexico Park Homestead KeyLargo Atlantic Florida Ocean Bay IndianKey KeyWest 0 25 50Miles Southern Florida and the Greater Everglades Watershed vii This page intentionally left blank ³ MarcoIsland PantherKey EvergladesCity £ CapeRomano (cid:91) Chokoloskee 41 Ten ThousandIslan ds EvergladesNational Park MainParkRoad Homestead OldIngraham RoyalPalm Hwy Hammock BillAshley Taylor Jungles Slough EastRiver WChrieskekey HMamadmeiorcak Gulf Little of Madiera Flamingo Bay KeyLargo Mexico FloridaBay IndianKey Marathon AtlanticOcean 0 10 20Miles Everglades National Park ix
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