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  1. FRESHWATER MARSHES
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  3. Human Impacts:  Campaigns to drain wetlands throughout history of Florida following European settlement; between mid-1950s and mid-1970s, 24% of Florida's remaining marshes were drained; many more have been severly altered by unnatural flooding.