Word: sawgrass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wallow-had swept more than 1,000,000 acres east and south of Lake Okeechobee. The burned area included 154,000 acres of rich muck and peatlands which nature was centuries in laying down and which expensive drainage systems were installed to make arable. Down through the sawgrass and palmetto flats of the Everglades the flames had roared. On both sides of the famed Tamiami Trail across the peninsula, the fire still burned. About 3,000,000 more acres were threatened...