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Gregory Baker Wolfe a former United States diplomat and then-president of Portland State University became FIU's third president from 1979 to 1986 After stepping down as president Wolfe taught in the university's international relations department the student union on the Biscayne Bay Campus is named in his honor. After the Civil War a state agency called the Internal Improvement Fund (IIF) whose purpose was to improve Florida's roads canals and rail lines was discovered to be deeply in debt the IIF found a Pennsylvania real estate developer named Hamilton Disston interested in implementing plans to drain the land for agriculture Disston purchased 4,000,000 acres (16,000 km2) of land for $1 million in 1881 and he began constructing canals near St Cloud at first the canals seemed to work in lowering the water levels in the wetlands surrounding the rivers They were effective in lowering the groundwater but it became apparent that their capacity was insufficient for the wet season Although Disston's canals did not drain well his purchase primed the economy of Florida it made news and attracted tourists and land buyers Within four years property values doubled and the population increased significantly. 4 Student life 8.4 Parks MIA has a number of air cargo facilities the largest cargo complex is located on the west side of the airport inside the triangle formed by Runways 12/30 and 9/27 Cargo carriers such as LAN Cargo Atlas Air Southern Air Amerijet International and DHL operate from this area the largest privately owned facility is the Centurion Cargo complex in the northeast corner of the airport with over 51,000 m2 (550,000 sq ft) of warehouse space FedEx and UPS operate their own facilities in the northwest corner of the airport off of 36th Street in addition to its large passenger terminal in Concourse D American Airlines operates a maintenance base to the east of Concourse D centered around a semicircular hangar originally used by National Airlines which can accommodate three widebody aircraft. .

5.3 Tourism See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Miami Florida. . ! La Florida 2 Geology Alexander Dinelaris Jr. unmatriculated Screenwriter playwright producer 8 Miami Gardens Miami-Dade 100,758 107,167 113,069 +5.51% U.S Representative 4.2 Cargo 4 Law government and politics Palm Springs North. 7 In television and entertainment Further information: Miami-Dade Police Department 3.3 Ranking The Miami accent is a regional accent of the American English dialect spoken in South Florida particularly in Miami-Dade Broward Palm Beach and Monroe counties the accent was born in central Miami but has expanded to the rest of South Florida in the decades since the 1960s the Miami accent is most prevalent in American-born South Floridian youth. Planned water recovery and storage implementation using CERP strategies, A Cracker cowboy 19th century, Although the Big Cypress is the largest growth of cypress swamps in South Florida cypress swamps can be found near the Atlantic Coastal Ridge and between Lake Okeechobee and the Eastern flatwoods as well as in sawgrass marshes Cypresses are deciduous conifers that are uniquely adapted to thrive in flooded conditions with buttressed trunks and root projections that protrude out of the water called "knees" Bald cypress trees grow in formations with the tallest and thickest trunks in the center rooted in the deepest peat As the peat thins out cypresses grow smaller and thinner giving the small forest the appearance of a dome from the outside They also grow in strands slightly elevated on a ridge of limestone bordered on either side by sloughs Other hardwood trees can be found in cypress domes such as red maple swamp bay and pop ash If cypresses are removed the hardwoods take over and the ecosystem is recategorized as a mixed swamp forest.