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ByMatthew W. Chwastyk This story appears in the September 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Florida’s famed wetlands, the Everglades, are pinched between a burgeoning Miami to the east ...

This story appears in the July 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Wait until dark, when the vast conspiratorial hush of the wetlands gives way to a chorus of chirpings and rustlings ...

This story appears in the November 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... It is one of the planet’s great wetlands, a vast splash of life-nurturing channels and lagoons and seasonal ...