The Everglades

by Douglas, Marjory Stoneman

• ISBN13: 9781561643943
• ISBN10: 1561643947
• Edition: 60th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-15
• Publisher: Pineapple Pr Inc

Summary

Before 1947, when Marjory Stoneman Douglas named the Everglades a "river of grass," most people considered the area worthless. She brought the world's attention to the need to preserve the Everglades. In the Afterword, Michael Grunwald tells us what has happened to them since then. Grunwald points out that in 1947 the government was in the midst of establishing the Everglades National Park and turning loose the Army Corps of Engineers to control floods--both of which seemed like saviors for the Glades. But neither turned out to be the answer. Working from the research he did for his book, The Swamp, Grunwald offers an account of what went wrong and the many attempts to fix it, beginning with Save Our Everglades, which Douglas declared was "not nearly enough." Grunwald then lays out the intricacies (and inanities) of the more recent and ongoing CERP, the hugely expensive Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan.

Table of Contents

The Nature of the Everglades	p. 5
The People of the Glades	p. 57
The Discoverers	p. 80
The Adventurers	p. 107
Captives and Martyrs	p. 128
The Conquerors	p. 145
Three Hundred Quiet Years	p. 168
The Free People	p. 185
War in the Glades: Fighting Retreat	p. 205
War in the Glades: The Undefeated	p. 220
The Coming of Peace	p. 246
White Man's Return	p. 268
Drainage and the Frontier	p. 295
Boom, Blow, Bust, and Recovery	p. 327
The Eleventh Hour	p. 349
Afterword	p. 391
Bibliography	p. 426
Index	p. 434
Index for Afterword	p. 445
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