Everglades
Climate Change Forces a Rethinking of Mammoth Everglades Restoration Plan
ORLANDO, Fla.—In 1948, work got underway in the Florida Everglades on a public works project hailed as the nation’s largest, aimed at reigning in once and for all the mighty river of grass that once spanned much of the peninsula. The effort would take decades to complete and involve some of the most complex water […]
Read MoreExpedition Retraces a Legendary Explorer’s Travels Through the Once-Pristine Everglades
In 1897, the explorer and amateur scientist Hugh de Laussat Willoughby climbed into a canoe and embarked on a coast-to-coast expedition of the Florida Everglades, a wilderness then nearly as vast as the peninsula itself and as unknown, he wrote, as the “heart of Africa.” Willoughby and his guide were the first non-Native Americans to […]
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