Everglades National Park's 50th Anniversary

Everglades National Park
50 Years
1947 - 1997

Past and Present

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December, 1950
Joseph C. Moore, biologist at Everglades National Park meeasuring the skull of false killer whale. First known in North America from a skelton found by a hunter about 1910 on the shore of Biscayne Bay. Behind him in the table is the skull of a goose-beaked whale -- the first ever known in Florida.
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Royal Palm Visitors Center next to the Anhinga Trail.
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December 7, 1951
Old Lodge at Paradise Key, Everglades National Park
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The Entrance to Everglades City.

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[The Anniversary Celebration] [The Everglade Magazine]

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