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.
Crocs and flip-flops (and plenty of DEET) in Flamingo, Fla.
We traveled the 90-mile or so road from Miami, along pine forests, cypress swamps, sawgrass marshes, and ponds to this final outpost and checked into the Flamingo Lodge.
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How Everglades National Park came to preserve the great 'River of Grass'
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 ...