How Everglades National Park came to preserve the great 'River of Grass'
A Florida governor in the early 1900s saw potential for the Everglades land but only if it was drained of its water.
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Everglades National Park
The Florida Everglades, described by writer Marjory Stoneman Douglas as "a river of grass," are comprised of sawgrass marsh punctuated by cypress swamps and mangrove forests – an ecosystem ...