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Article: River of grass. (Everglades)(includes facts about the ecosystem)
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- Country Living
- Article date:
- March 1, 1997
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Efforts are under way to restore the embattled Everglades to its natural grandeur.
There are no other Everglades in the world," wrote environmentalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas 50 years ago. "They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth, remote, never wholly known.... It is a river of grass."
When Ms. Douglas, who has worked tirelessly to raise awareness about the biological importance of south Florida's saw-grass marshes, oxbows, wet prairies, and mangrove forests, published The Everglades: River of Grass in 1947, she could scarcely have imagined the ecosystem's ongoing and urgent need for a champion today.
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