Documented History
Confirmed by primary records or authoritative institutions. Sources cited.
Why the Everglades Is a River, Not a Swamp
Stand in the sawgrass and the water looks still. It isn’t. How the Everglades moves — and why that single fact explains its history.
Ernest F. Coe
The Connecticut-born landscape architect who spent the last quarter-century of his life making the case for Everglades National Park.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
The journalist whose 1947 book gave the Everglades its enduring name — and who spent the rest of a very long life defending it.
The Seminole and Miccosukee in the Everglades
The nations who withstood removal and made the Everglades home — told here with sources, and best told by the tribes themselves.
Airboat History
How a boat with nothing under the water opened the Everglades to hunters, researchers, wildlife officers and visitors.
How Airboats Work
Engine, propeller, cage, rudders, hull and driver — the anatomy of an Everglades airboat, explained.
American Alligator
Keystone of the Everglades — the reptile whose dry-season “gator holes” keep much of the marsh alive.
American Crocodile
The coastal cousin — and the reason South Florida is the only place alligators and crocodiles live side by side.
Everglades Snail Kite
A hawk that eats almost nothing but apple snails — and so depends entirely on healthy marsh water.
