The Everglades: River of Grass
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- $17.99
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- $17.99
Publisher Description
Before 1947, when Marjory Stoneman Douglas named The Everglades a "river of grass," most people considered the area worthless. She brought the world's attention to the need to preserve The Everglades. In the Afterword, Michael Grunwald tells us what has happened to them since then. Grunwald points out that in 1947 the government was in the midst of establishing the Everglades National Park and turning loose the Army Corps of Engineers to control floods--both of which seemed like saviors for the Glades. But neither turned out to be the answer. Working from the research he did for his book, The Swamp, Grunwald offers an account of what went wrong and the many attempts to fix it, beginning with Save Our Everglades, which Douglas declared was "not nearly enough." Grunwald then lays out the intricacies (and inanities) of the more recent and ongoing CERP, the hugely expensive Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan.
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Slightly used (18%) digital copy of Everglades written in adjectives, adverbs, and assumptions. Hmm, maybe I am being too harsh… Just because I didn’t like it doesn’t mean you won’t like this book. This review was made after only 18% was completed. Can you truly review a book having not read it completely? I think not. Can the author claim with clarity the origins of the continents, of our planet and the origin of humanity? I think not. There are stars in the sky, when mixed with imagination, can resemble various animals. There are geological markers that lend credence to some assumptions. There are paleontologists that may lead one to come to certain assumptions. But to pass them off as fact… well, I had to put the book aside until science agrees with the author’s assumptions. Let me also say that science is a work in progress. Just as doctors are always practicing.