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Fisheating Creek is the second-largest natural source of water for Lake Okeechobee (behind the Kissimmee River), supplying close to 9% of the water flowing into the lake. [7] [8] Fisheating Creek originally arose in a series of perennial marshes in Highlands County west of Lake Placid. Each marsh overflowed into another, slightly lower marsh ...
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 ...
Lake Okeechobee ( US: / oʊkiˈtʃoʊbi / 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. [ 3]
INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is creating a 4 million-acre conservation area in western Florida. The Everglades to Gulf Conservation Area was announced Monday Secretary ...
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The land was put up for sale in 1940. Local officials worked with the U.S. Forest Service to purchase the land and keep it from an interested timber company.
Limited space available so please register. Fee $10 per person (cash only). To register, call the Hickory Hollow Nature Center 812-738-8234. Full Moon Hike at Ogle Lake, 9- 1 0:30 p.m., Brown ...
The Ortona Prehistoric Village is an archaeological site adjacent to the community of Ortona in northeastern Glades County, Florida, north of the Caloosahatchee River and west of Lake Okeechobee, consisting of mounds, canals and other features. [1] Part of the site is currently in the Glades County-owned Ortona Indian Mound Park, but much ...