The Everglades: River of Grass, Hardcover/Marjory Stoneman Douglas - Pineapple Press

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Before 1947, when Marjory Stoneman Douglas named The Everglades a "River of grass," most people considered the area worthless.
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..
But neither turned out to be the answer.
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.
In the new and updated Afterword, Michael Grunwald again tells us what has happened to them since then.
She brought the world\'s attention to the need to preserve The Everglades.
Before 1947, when Marjory Stoneman Douglas named The Everglades a "River of grass," most people considered the area worthless