Coastal Breeze News

Who Was Marjory? Marjory Stoneman Douglas (1890-1998) was an author, journalist and environmental activist. Her best-known work, The Everglades River of Grass, was published in 1947. It drew attention to the fact that water is the key to the Everglades and pre-sented the concept that the Everglades was not simply a swamp to be drained, but a vital part of the ecosystem of South Florida. The original Everglades drainage scheme, imple-mented in 1906, forever changed the Everglades by altering its natural flooding and evaporation cycles. Were it not for Marjory and others like her, these changes might have gone unnoticed. ... Read More »