A lake along Loop Road, near Everglades National Park’s Loop Road Education Center, is home to many animals and aquatic plants. It’s a part of the park with wilderness designation protecting against much human activity, and near Big Cypress National Preserve, where legislation is proposed in Congress to prevent wilderness designation and maintain more human access. Photos by Kelly J. Farrell
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FLORIDA’S WILDERNESS
Preserving access to Big Cypress
Welcome to wilderness, to Big Cypress National Preserve, where the evolving relationship between humans and the natural world plays out in politics, in daily life — and sometimes, over a cold beverage in the wooded swamps.
