REPORT OF INVESTIGATIONS NO. 42


 INTRODUCTION

 To satisfy the demands of a rapidly increasing population, many
acres of land in Florida are converted each year to residential and
industrial uses. Urbanization of these areas and the demand for
increasing the food supply thus require that man search for new
areas to develop for agricultural uses. This search, in many
instances, has led to the development of marginal lands.
 The Green Swamp area, shown in figure 1, in central Florida
is an area where man is developing agricultural land from marginal
land. The present efforts for its development are similar to the
early efforts for developing the Everglades in that many miles of
canals and ditches have been constructed to improve the drainage.


.Figure 1. Map of Florida showing location of Green Swamp area.