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Fisheating Creek is a stream that flows into Lake Okeechobee in Florida. It is the only remaining free-flowing water course feeding into the lake, and the second-largest natural source for the lake. Most of the land surrounding the stream is either publicly owned or under conservation easements restricting development.
The area around Fisheating Creek was occupied by people of the Belle Glade culture from as early as 1000 BCE. Fort Center is a complex of earthwork mounds , linear embankments, middens , circular ditches, and an artificial pond occupying an area approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) long and 0.5 miles (0.80 km) wide extending east-west along Fisheating ...
Counties included in the South Section of the Great Florida Birding Trail. This is a list of parks and nature reserves that are locations in the South section of the Great Florida Birding Trail . Locations include sites in Broward, Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades, Hendry, Lee, Martin, Monroe, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach and Sarasota counties. [1]
Fish Creek Mountains Wilderness. / 32.97444°N 116.01278°W / 32.97444; -116.01278. The Fish Creek Mountains Wilderness is located about 25 miles west of Brawley, California, and southeast of the Vallecito Mountains in the United States. The wilderness is located in the Fish Creek Mountains region in the northern part of the Carrizo ...
It includes the Peace River, Myakka River, Fisheating Creek and Caloosahatchee River watersheds and borders the Everglades Headwaters National Wildlife Refuge and Conservation Area.
Lake Okeechobee (US: / oʊ k i ˈ tʃ oʊ b i / oh-kee-CHOH-bee) [1] is the largest freshwater lake in the U.S. state of Florida. [2] It is the eighth-largest natural freshwater lake among the 50 states of the United States and the second-largest natural freshwater lake contained entirely within the contiguous 48 states, after Lake Michigan.
The Herbert Hoover Dike (HHD) is a component of the Central and Southern Florida (C&SF) Project for Flood Control and other Purposes. The C&SF project was authorized in the Flood Control Act of 1948, 1954, 1960, 1965, and 1968; authorization in 1970 under Section 201 of the Flood Control Act of 1965; the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA ...
Canebrake Ecological Reserve is a 6,700-acre (27 km 2) [2] nature reserve in the South Fork Valley of Kern County, 20 miles (32 km) east of Lake Isabella, California. It is located in the Southern Sierra Nevada region. Historian Wallace M. Morgan, in History of Kern County, California, wrote that the South Fork Valley was the first area settled ...