Taken from the earlier book Priceless Florida (and modified for a stand-alone book), this volume discusses Florida's wetlands, including interior wetlands, seepage wetlands, marshes, flowing-water swamps, beaches and marine marshes, and mangrove swamps. Introduces readers to the trees and plants, insects, mammals, reptiles, and other species that live in Florida's unique wetlands ecosystem, including the Virginia iris, American white waterlily, cypress, treefrogs, warblers, and the Florida black bear.
Ellie Whitney was educated at Harvard and Washington Universities and has lived in Tallahassee since 1970. She has taught at Florida State and Florida A&M Universities and has authored more than two dozen college textbooks on health and related topics. She has spent more than 35 years exploring outdoor Florida and studying its ecology.