A Florida governor in the early 1900s saw potential for the Everglades land but only if it was drained of its water.
Everglades National Park is the third-largest national park ... flowing for thousands of years from Lake Okeechobee out to Florida Bay, what would become known as the "River of Grass" was seen ...
There, on a wooden platform, and with 57-year-old environmental champion Marjory Stoneman Douglas at his side, he dedicated America’s newest national park ... out to Florida Bay, what ...
There, on a wooden platform, and with 57-year-old environmental champion Marjory Stoneman Douglas at his side, he dedicated America’s newest national ... the Everglades covered some 2,700 square miles ...