Save The Everglades

the long version

Save The Everglades describes the successful efforts of concerned citizens to stop construction of a jetport that would have destroyed the Florida Everglades. Save The Everglades is accurate account of how very different people who all shared a love of nature fought to stop political leaders and real estate developers in Miami, Florida from building what would have been the world’s largest airport, just a few miles from Everglades National Park and within the Big Cypress Swamp, the wildest and richest part of the Florida Everglades. Hunters, alligator poachers, Miccosukee Indians, school children and environmental leaders, Joe Browder and Marjory Stoneman Douglas, started a national campaign that convinced President Nixon of the United States to withdraw federal money and permits for the airport project, and then to buy the Big Cypress and make it part of the Everglades protected by the National Parks System. Judith Bauer Stamper is a published author of several children’s books. Some of her published credits include: Save The Everglades (Stories of America), Magic School Bus: The Wild Leaf Ride (Turtleback) and Go, Fractions! (All Aboard Math Reader) Allen Davis is a published author and illustrator of children’s books. Some of his published credits include: Save The Everglades (Stories of America), Peter Pan (Great Illustrated Classics) and Chipmunk at Hollow Tree Lane (Smithsonian’s Backyard Series). Alex Haley, as General Editor, wrote the introduction.