Florida has more swamps and marshes than any other state except Alaska. One-third of it is covered with cypress domes, wet prairies, mangroves swamps, sawgrass glades, pitcher plant savannahs, and other wetlands. Swamps in florida are the last refuge of the panthers, wood storks, black bears, and many rare plants such as the ghost orchid and hand fern. In this intimate account of a world of biological richness, Ron Larson offers everyone from bird watchers and canoeist to botanist and policy makers and introduction to Florida’s forested wetlands. 6.25" x9.25", 214 pages, University Press of Florida, 1995, ISBN 0813013550.