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Author : Jack E. Davis
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 41,50 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 082033071X
Profiles the suffragist, feminist, and environmentalist who fought for the preservation and protection of the Everglades and won the battle that turned it into a national wilderness area.
Author : Sandra Wallus Sammons
Publisher : Pineapple Press Inc
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 44,16 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Conservationists
ISBN : 1561644714
Young adult biography of the Florida author and naturalist who wrote Everglades: River of Grass
Author : Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Publisher :
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 21,36 MB
Release : 1947
Category : Everglades (Fla.)
ISBN :
Author : Sandra Neil Wallace
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 21,29 MB
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1534431551
“Vibrant…an ideal starting point for further learning.” —School Library Journal “A lively portrayal of Douglas as a remarkable individual and a significant environmental activist.” —Booklist From acclaimed children’s book biographer Sandra Neil Wallace comes the inspiring and little-known story of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, the remarkable journalist who saved the Florida Everglades from development and ruin. Marjory Stoneman Douglas didn’t intend to write about the Everglades but when she returned to Florida from World War I, she hardly recognized the place that was her home. The Florida that Marjory knew was rapidly disappearing—the rare orchids, magnificent birds, and massive trees disappearing with it. Marjory couldn’t sit back and watch her home be destroyed—she had to do something. Thanks to Marjory, a part of the Everglades became a national park and the first park not created for sightseeing, but for the benefit of animals and plants. Without Marjory, the part of her home that she loved so much would have been destroyed instead of the protected wildlife reserve it has become today.
Author : Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Publisher : Pineapple Press Inc
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 43,77 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781561643943
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.
Author : Michael Grunwald
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 11,57 MB
Release : 2006-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781416537274
The Everglades was once reviled as a liquid wasteland, and Americans dreamed of draining it. Now it is revered as a national treasure, and Americans have launched the largest environmental project in history to try to save it. The Swamp is the stunning story of the destruction and possible resurrection of the Everglades, the saga of man's abuse of nature in southern Florida and his unprecedented efforts to make amends. Michael Grunwald, a prize-winning national reporter for The Washington Post, takes readers on a riveting journey from the Ice Ages to the present, illuminating the natural, social and political history of one of America's most beguiling but least understood patches of land. The Everglades was America's last frontier, a wild country long after the West was won. Grunwald chronicles how a series of visionaries tried to drain and "reclaim" it, and how Mother Nature refused to bend to their will; in the most harrowing tale, a 1928 hurricane drowned 2,500 people in the Everglades. But the Army Corps of Engineers finally tamed the beast with levees and canals, converting half the Everglades into sprawling suburbs and sugar plantations. And though the southern Everglades was preserved as a national park, it soon deteriorated into an ecological mess. The River of Grass stopped flowing, and 90 percent of its wading birds vanished. Now America wants its swamp back. Grunwald shows how a new breed of visionaries transformed Everglades politics, producing the $8 billion rescue plan. That plan is already the blueprint for a new worldwide era of ecosystem restoration. And this book is a cautionary tale for that era. Through gripping narrative and dogged reporting, Grunwald shows how the Everglades is still threatened by the same hubris, greed and well-intentioned folly that led to its decline.
Author : Sara Louise Kras
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 31,66 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780761446460
Discover the Everglades--a mysterious, exciting, and exotic natural landform.
Author : David McCally
Publisher :
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 10,37 MB
Release : 2000-10-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780813018270
Discusses the formation, development, and history of the Everglades
Author : Tommy Rodriguez
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 34,16 MB
Release : 2011-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1468507486
The book chronicles the experiences of the author in the Everglades; his photographs are meant to broaden awareness of the Everglades.
Author : Susan Cerulean
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 17,4 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Endangered ecosystems
ISBN : 9781571312600
Many may not realize that the Everglades National Park is cut off from the water that gives it life. Its ecosystem begins well above the park's boundary, extending more than three hundred miles from the Kissimmee River (near Tampa and Orlando) southward through Florida Bay. It is the most endangered ecosystem in North America. The Book of the Everglades is a story of how much was changed when the vast river of grass was drained and converted to agriculture, its natural plumbing channeled so that nearby towns and farms would be protected from flood and saved in drought. It's a story of how one of North America's largest freshwater lakes ended up with a moat around it. A story of the sugar barons who were kicked out of Cuba and settled in what is now known as the Everglades Agricultural Area. A story of the largest subdivision in the world, platted on drained wetlands. A story of the soil that is no longer replenished and gives way at the rate of one foot every ten years. It is a story told by writers who know how to tell a story, and who convey the workings of the entire Everglades ecosystem and the impact of its inhabitants. ... Publisher description.