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Amenities include boat slips, beaches, hiking trails, picnic pavilions, 12 primitive camping cabins and bath house/restrooms. The park offers a small nature center/gift shop with nature exhibits as well as items for sale. The park has the following available for purchase: ice, sun lotion, bug spray,
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Wang, Xiaonan; Chen, Sixue; Zhang, Heng; Shi, Lei; Cao, Fenglin; Guo, Lihai; Xie, Yongming; Wang, Tai; Yan, Xiufeng; Dai, Shaojun (December 3, 2010). "Desiccation
Tolerance Mechanism in Resurrection Fern-Ally Selaginella tamariscina Revealed by Physiological and Proteomic Analysis".
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Hunter, Margaret E.; Mignucci-Giannoni, Antonio A.; Tucker, Kimberly Pause; King, Timothy L.; Bonde, Robert K.; Gray, Brian A.; McGuire, Peter M. (December 2012). "Puerto Rico and
Florida manatees represent genetically distinct groups".
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2671:Nature Coast
2633:State trails
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2433:Paynes Creek
2358:The Barnacle
2196:Three Rivers
2176:Myakka River
2146:Alafia River
2139:Lake Talquin
2134:Lake Manatee
2114:Lake Griffin
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2784:Lake George
2769:Indian Lake
2754:Four Creeks
2613:Tosohatchee
2503:Anclote Key
2428:Orman House
2383:Fort Foster
2378:Dudley Farm
2373:DeSoto Site
2263:Troy Spring
2203:Blue Spring
2186:Oleta River
2156:Dunns Creek
2129:Lake Louisa
2011:St. Andrews
1991:Perdido Key
1881:Fort Cooper
1876:Fort Clinch
1866:Faver-Dykes
1796:Bulow Creek
1766:Bahia Honda
1616:St. Vincent
1596:Pine Island
1586:Passage Key
1481:Archie Carr
494:, off-road
341:sea turtles
323:, oak-palm
215:Boca Grande
166: /
142:Coordinates
2976:Categories
2744:Deep Creek
2714:Big Shoals
2568:River Rise
2528:Estero Bay
2403:Indian Key
2301:Dead Lakes
1966:Lovers Key
1856:Egmont Key
1821:Colt Creek
1811:Cayo Costa
1806:Camp Helen
1781:Big Shoals
1776:Big Lagoon
1771:Bald Point
1581:Okefenokee
1536:Island Bay
1531:Hobe Sound
1516:Egmont Key
1496:Cedar Keys
1359:Everglades
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606:References
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2854:Tiger Bay
2588:Seabranch
2543:Hal Scott
2475:Mound Key
2388:Fort Mose
2109:Deer Lake
1756:Anastasia
1611:St. Marks
1606:St. Johns
1423:Canaveral
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1093:Jackson,
1078:925584538
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296:Geography
2951:Category
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2824:Pine Log
2804:Matanzas
2774:Jennings
2583:Savannas
2408:Koreshan
1961:Long Key
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1546:Key West
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661:June 26,
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500:swimming
476:Seagrape
325:hammocks
270:Key West
118:Location
2961:Commons
2864:Wakulla
2764:Holopaw
2709:Belmore
2046:Torreya
1461:Osceola
1377:De Soto
1328:Federal
1315:Florida
1251:effort.
942:Bibcode
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625:WINK-TV
571:Little
520:camping
516:fishing
384:raccoon
367:), and
321:forests
314:beaches
255:ranchos
247:ranchos
233:History
207:Florida
2874:Welaka
2809:Myakka
2759:Goethe
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1981:O'Leno
1761:Avalon
1101:, 2007
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492:hiking
327:, and
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239:Calusa
1743:Parks
1732:level
1730:State
1456:Ocala
1330:level
1030:S2CID
899:S2CID
686:JSTOR
449:Flora
361:green
335:Fauna
201:is a
2729:Cary
1659:and
1246:2016
1218:2016
1188:2016
1157:2016
1126:2016
1066:PMID
784:2016
754:2022
746:CNBC
716:2018
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179:Area
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