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Douglas, Marjory Stoneman |
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Douglas, Marjory Stoneman (1890– ) author, conservationist; born in Minneapolis, Minn. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1912 and worked as a journalist and educator in Miami. Her book, The Everglades: River of Grass (1947), sounded an early warning of the environmental perils facing the Florida Everglades. She cofounded Friends of the Everglades in 1969 and is widely credited with helping to slow the destruction of the swamp ecosystem. She is also the author of several works of juvenile literature. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The selection includes famous authors like Zora Neale Hurston, John James Audubon and Marjory Stoneman Douglas as well as work from private diaries of early settlers, longtime residents and visitors. Drought: "Eighty percent of our rainfall depends on evaporation from the Everglades," South Florida naturalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas pointed out in 1990. In 1994, to the dismay of Florida legislators, the then-103-year-old Marjory Stoneman Douglas, author of The Everglades: River of Grass and a leading force in protecting the wetlands for more than 50 years, publicly demanded that her name be stricken from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Everglades Forever Act of 1994 because she felt that the state had retreated from its commitment to restore the ecosystem. |
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