Author and activist Marjory Stoneman Douglas formed Friends of the Everglades in 1969 to fight the proposed Jetport and advocate for preservation of the ecosystem. Activist Marjory Stoneman Douglas ...
Stories of people fighting against a decades-old environmental battle in the Everglades. In the 1960s, plans to build the world’s largest jetport were underway. Environmentalists like Marjory Stoneman ...
In the 1960s, plans to build the world’s largest jetport were underway. Environmentalists like Marjory Stoneman Douglas pushed back. She founded the organization Friends of the Everglades with the ...
The Everglades are a vast wetland spanning millions of acres. The region is tremendously important to the ecology of southern Florida. It's also a place recently at the center of a national ...
Nearly 60 years ago, a fight over a massive Everglades airport helped reshape U.S. environmental law. Reporter Meghan Bowman reports on that battle in the podcast Defenders of the Everglades. The ...