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Together the entire FIU university-wide Library holdings include over 2,097,207 volumes 52,511 current serials 3,587,663 microform units and 163,715 audio visual units, Alligators have created a niche in wet prairies With their claws and snouts they dig at low spots and create ponds free of vegetation that remain submerged throughout the dry season Alligator holes are integral to the survival of aquatic invertebrates turtles fish small mammals and birds during extended drought periods the alligators then feed upon some of the animals that come to the hole! 6.3 Drainage 4 Student life, FIU is ranked 2nd in the U.S. for granting biology bachelor's degrees and 6th in granting master's degrees to minorities according to Diverse Issues in Higher Education, 5 Education Rum-runners used the Everglades as a hiding spot during Prohibition; it was so vast there were never enough law enforcement officers to patrol it the arrival of the railroad and the discovery that adding trace elements like copper was the remedy for crops sprouting and dying quickly soon created a population boom New towns such as Moore Haven Clewiston and Belle Glade sprouted like the crops Sugarcane became the primary crop grown in South Florida Miami experienced a second real estate boom that earned a developer in Coral Gables $150 million Undeveloped land north of Miami sold for $30,600 an acre in 1925 Miami newspapers published editions weighing over 7 pounds (3.2 kg) most of it in real estate advertising Waterfront property was the most highly valued Mangrove trees were cut down and replaced with palm trees to improve the view Acres of South Florida slash pine were cleared Some of the pine was for lumber but most of the pine forests in Dade County were cleared for development. 3.3 South Terminal (Red), School of Journalism and Mass Communication Germany Germany Hialeah Park Race Track Arts and culture.

1952 45.0% 444,950 55.0% 544,036 The Mayaimi (also Maymi Maimi) were Native American people who lived around Lake Mayaimi (now Lake Okeechobee) in the Belle Glade area of Florida from the beginning of the Common Era until the 17th or 18th century in the languages of the Mayaimi Calusa and Tequesta tribes Mayaimi meant "big water." the origin of the language has not been determined as the meanings of only ten words were recorded before extinction the linguist Julian Granberry states that the language of the Calusa Mayaimi (which he calls Guacata) and Tequesta people is related to the Tunica language the current name Okeechobee is derived from the Hitchiti word meaning "big water" the Mayaimis have no linguistic or cultural relationship with the Miamis of Great Lakes region the city of Miami is named after the Miami River which derived its name from Lake Mayaimi. In 1999 an evaluation of the C&SF was submitted to Congress as part of the Water Development Act of 1992 the seven-year report called the "Restudy" cited indicators of harm to the ecosystem: a 50 percent reduction in the original Everglades diminished water storage harmful timing of water releases from canals and pumping stations an 85 to 90 percent decrease in wading bird populations over the past 50 years and the decline of output from commercial fisheries Bodies of water including Lake Okeechobee the Caloosahatchee River St Lucie estuary Lake Worth Lagoon Biscayne Bay Florida Bay and the Everglades reflected drastic water level changes hypersalinity and dramatic changes in marine and freshwater ecosystems the Restudy noted the overall decline in water quality over the past 50 years was due to loss of wetlands that act as filters for polluted water it predicted that without intervention the entire South Florida ecosystem would deteriorate Water shortages would become common and some cities would have annual water restrictions. Maidique was the second longest-serving research university president in the nation Now President Emeritus he currently serves as the Alvah H Chapman Jr Eminent Scholar Chair in Leadership and Executive Director of the Center for Leadership and Professor of Management at FIU, 7.5 Air crashes Until the early 1990s the runways parking ramp and other features of Tamiami Airport were still visible on campus and clearly discernible in aerial photos Construction has removed all of these features and only the University Tower remains as a memory of the university's past University Park is a lush heavily vegetated campus with many lakes and a 15-acre nature preserve as well as a palm arboretum and has over 90 buildings as of late 2009 current construction at University Park includes the Nursing and Health Sciences Building the School of International and Public Affairs Building and a fifth parking garage. The idea of a national park for the Everglades was pitched in 1928 when a Miami land developer named Ernest F Coe established the Everglades Tropical National Park Association it had enough support to be declared a national park by Congress in 1934 it took another 13 years to be dedicated on December 6 1947 One month before the dedication of the park a former editor from the Miami Herald and freelance writer named Marjory Stoneman Douglas released her first book titled the Everglades: River of Grass After researching the region for five years she described the history and ecology of the South Florida in great detail She characterized the Everglades as a river instead of a stagnant swamp the last chapter was titled "The Eleventh Hour" and warned that the Everglades were dying although it could be reversed.