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Manatee Springs State Park, the Glossary

Manatee Springs State Park is a Florida State Park located six miles west of Chiefland on SR 320, off US 19.^[1]

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Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was an American lawyer, planter, general, and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837.

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Bartram's Travels

Bartram's Travels is the short title of naturalist William Bartram's book describing his travels in the American South and encounters with American Indians between 1773 and 1777.

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The black vulture (Coragyps atratus), also known as the American black vulture, Mexican vulture, zopilote, urubu, or gallinazo, is a bird in the New World vulture family whose range extends from the southeastern United States to Perú, Central Chile and Uruguay in South America.

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Boardwalk

A boardwalk (alternatively board walk, boarded path, or promenade) is an elevated footpath, walkway, or causeway typically built with wooden planks, which functions as a type of low water bridge or small viaduct that enables pedestrians to better cross wet, muddy or marshy lands.

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Bream

Bream are species of freshwater fish belonging to a variety of genera including Abramis (e.g., A. brama, the common bream), Ballerus, Blicca, Brama, Chilotilapia, Etelis, Lepomis, Gymnocranius, Lethrinus, Nemipterus, Pharyngochromis, Rhabdosargus, Scolopsis, or Serranochromis.

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Camping

Camping is a form of outdoor recreation or outdoor education involving overnight stays with a basic temporary shelter such as a tent.

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Canoeing

Canoeing is an activity which involves paddling a canoe with a single-bladed paddle.

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Catfish

Catfish (or catfishes; order Siluriformes or Nematognathi) are a diverse group of ray-finned fish.

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Celsius

The degree Celsius is the unit of temperature on the Celsius temperature scale "Celsius temperature scale, also called centigrade temperature scale, scale based on 0 ° for the melting point of water and 100 ° for the boiling point of water at 1 atm pressure." (originally known as the centigrade scale outside Sweden), one of two temperature scales used in the International System of Units (SI), the other being the closely related Kelvin scale.

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Chiefland, Florida

Chiefland is a city in Levy County, Florida, United States.

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Cycling

Cycling, also known as bicycling or biking, is the activity of riding a bicycle or other type of cycle.

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Dock

The word dock in American English refers to one or a group of human-made structures that are involved in the handling of boats or ships (usually on or near a shore).

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Fahrenheit

The Fahrenheit scale is a temperature scale based on one proposed in 1724 by the European physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736).

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Florida

Florida is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Florida Department of Environmental Protection

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) is the Florida government agency responsible for environmental protection.

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Florida State Road 320

State Road 320 (SR 320) is an east–west route in Levy County connecting Manatee Springs State Park to U.S. Route 19 (US 19), 98, and US 27 Alternate (US 27 Alt.). The state-signed portion runs along streets named Manatee Springs Road, Northwest 115th Street, and Northwest 19th Avenue.

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Fraxinus

Fraxinus, commonly called ash, is a genus of plants in the olive and lilac family, Oleaceae, and comprises 45–65 species of usually medium-to-large trees, most of which are deciduous trees, although some subtropical species are evergreen trees.

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Gulf of Mexico

The Gulf of Mexico (Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, mostly surrounded by the North American continent.

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Hardwood

Hardwood is wood from angiosperm trees.

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Hiking

Hiking is a long, vigorous walk, usually on trails or footpaths in the countryside.

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Kayaking

Kayaking is the use of a kayak for moving over water.

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Largemouth bass

The largemouth bass (Micropterus nigricans) is a carnivorous freshwater ray-finned fish in the Centrarchidae (sunfish) family, native to the eastern and central United States, southeastern Canada and northern Mexico.

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Levy County, Florida

Levy County is a county located on the Gulf coast in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Florida.

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Liquidambar

Liquidambar, commonly called sweetgum (star gum in the UK), gum, redgum, satin-walnut, or American storax, is the only genus in the flowering plant family Altingiaceae and has 15 species.

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List of Florida state parks

There are 175 state parks and 9 state trails in the U.S. state of Florida which encompass more than, providing recreational opportunities for both residents and tourists. Manatee Springs State Park and List of Florida state parks are state parks of Florida.

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Longnose gar

The longnose gar (Lepisosteus osseus), also known as longnose garpike or billy gar, is a ray-finned fish in the family Lepisosteidae.

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Manatee

Manatees (family Trichechidae, genus Trichechus) are large, fully aquatic, mostly herbivorous marine mammals sometimes known as sea cows.

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Maple

Acer is a genus of trees and shrubs commonly known as maples.

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Pavilion

In architecture, pavilion has several meanings;.

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Picnic

A picnic is a meal taken outdoors (''al fresco'') as part of an excursion, especially in scenic surroundings, such as a park, lakeside, or other place affording an interesting view, or else in conjunction with a public event such as preceding an open-air theater performance, and usually in summer or spring.

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Pond

A pond is a small, still, land-based body of water formed by pooling inside a depression, either naturally or artificially.

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Scuba diving

Scuba diving is a mode of underwater diving whereby divers use breathing equipment that is completely independent of a surface breathing gas supply, and therefore has a limited but variable endurance.

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Seminole Wars

The Seminole Wars (also known as the Florida Wars) were a series of three military conflicts between the United States and the Seminoles that took place in Florida between about 1816 and 1858.

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Sinkhole

A sinkhole is a depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of collapse of the surface layer.

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Snorkeling

Snorkeling (British and Commonwealth English spelling: snorkelling) is the practice of swimming face down on or through a body of water while breathing the ambient air through a shaped tube called a snorkel, usually with swimming goggles or a diving mask, and swimfins.

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Soil erosion

Soil erosion is the denudation or wearing away of the upper layer of soil.

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Spring (hydrology)

A spring is a natural exit point at which groundwater emerges from the aquifer and flows onto the top of the Earth's crust (pedosphere) to become surface water.

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Suwannee River

The Suwannee River (also spelled Suwanee River) is a river that runs through south Georgia southward into Florida in the Southern United States.

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Swamp

A swamp is a forested wetland.

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Swimming

Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival.

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Taxodium

Taxodium is a genus of one to three species (depending on taxonomic opinion) of extremely flood-tolerant conifers in the cypress family, Cupressaceae.

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Timucua

The Timucua were a Native American people who lived in Northeast and North Central Florida and southeast Georgia.

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U.S. Route 19 in Florida

U.S. Highway 19 (US 19) runs about along Florida's west coast from an interchange with US 41 in Memphis, south of Tampa, and continues to the Georgia border north of Monticello.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Weeden Island culture

The Weeden Island cultures are a group of related archaeological cultures that existed during the Late Woodland period (500 - 1000 CE) of the North American Southeast.

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Wetland

A wetland is a distinct semi-aquatic ecosystem whose groundcovers are flooded or saturated in water, either permanently, for years or decades, or only seasonally for a shorter periods.

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White-tailed deer

The white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), also known commonly as the whitetail and the Virginia deer, is a medium-sized species of deer native to North America, Central America, and South America as far south as Peru and Bolivia, where it predominately inhabits high mountain terrains of the Andes.

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Wildlife

Wildlife refers to undomesticated animal species, but has come to include all organisms that grow or live wild in an area without being introduced by humans.

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William Bartram

William Bartram (April 20, 1739 – July 22, 1823) was an American naturalist, writer and explorer.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manatee_Springs_State_Park

Also known as Manatee Springs.

Manatee Springs State Park, the Glossary

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See also

National Natural Landmarks in Florida

Springs of Florida

Suwannee River

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