Tampa Bay: The Story of an Estuary and Its People (Bennett Evan P.)(Paperback)

Exploring the environmental history
of an important natural area The
largest open water estuary in Florida, Tampa Bay has been a flashpoint of
environmental struggles and action in recent years. This book goes beneath today's
news headlines to explore how people have interacted with nature in the region
throughout its long history. In
Tampa Bay, Evan Bennett reveals that
humans have been part of the Bay's ecology since the estuary took its modern form
2,000 years ago, along with the communities of fish, birds, reptiles, and mammals
that proliferated in its seagrass meadows, tidal salt flats, and mangrove
forests. Bennett discusses the natural resources that drew people to settle
there, the trade that encouraged development, and the shipping and industry
that increased biological and ecological change.
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