An Everglades Providence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Everglades Providence write by Jack E. Davis. This book was released on 2009. An Everglades Providence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Marjory Saves the Everglades
Marjory Saves the Everglades - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Marjory Saves the Everglades write by Sandra Neil Wallace. This book was released on 2020-09-22. Marjory Saves the Everglades available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “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.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the Florida Everglades
Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the Florida Everglades - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the Florida Everglades write by Sandra Sammons. This book was released on 2010-06-01. Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the Florida Everglades available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Marjory Stoneman Douglas is called "the Grandmother of the Everglades." Read about her life from her childhood up north to her long and inspiring life in south Florida. She arrived in Miami in 1915 from her native Massachusetts, happy to be in the tropical warmth. She began to understood the importance of the Everglades, an area most considered a "swamp." She called attention to it with her book The Everglades: River of Grass. During her 108 years, she was a newspaper and magazine journalist as well as book writer. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her work on the Everglades. Ages 9-12 Next in series > > See all of the books in this series
The Everglades
The Everglades - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Everglades write by Marjory Stoneman Douglas. This book was released on 2007. The Everglades available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Everglades Patrol
Everglades Patrol - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Everglades Patrol write by Tom Shirley. This book was released on 2012-09-03. Everglades Patrol available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As law enforcement officer and game manager for the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Lt. Tom Shirley was the law in one of the last true frontiers in the nation--the Florida Everglades. In Everglades Patrol, Shirley shares the stories from his beat--an ecosystem larger than the state of Rhode Island. His vivid narrative includes dangerous tales of hunting down rogue gladesmen and gators and airboat chases through the wetlands in search of illegal hunters and moonshiners. During his thirty-year career (1955-1985), Shirley saw the Glades go from frontier wilderness to "ruination" at the hands of the Army Corps of Engineers. He watched as dikes cut off the water flow and controlled floods submerged islands that had supported man and animals for 3,000 years, killing much of the wildlife he was sworn to protect.
