Chapter 31 - The Conversion

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Chapter 31 - The Conversion

• Setting Miami, 1969
• Main Characters
• Marjory Stoneman Douglass
• Woman of the Everglades due to her extensive
  work with Everglades literature and activism
• Wrote River of Grass Adventures in a Green
  World
• Renaissance womanan intellectual force of
  tremendous breadth.
• Joe Browder
• Environmental Activist
• Judy Wilson
• Environmental Activist and Joe Browders
  assistant and office manager

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Chapter Main Ideas

• Motives behind putting a jetport in the middle
  of the Everglades
• Physical Placement
• Implications for future growth
• Both against regionalist perspectives of keeping
  the Everglades clear of the nuisances of
  civilization
• Friends of the Everglades
• Founded Novemeber 1969
• Led by Marjory Stoneman Douglass ( who was 79 at
  the time)
• a grassroots organizationto insure a better
  future for the Everglades which is the heart of
  the region of South Florida
• Importance was to speak directly to the public
  about the necessity of protecting the Everglades
  from the airport and similar things
• Helped get the protect the Everglades message
  out into the public, especially at a time when
  the Everglades needed the help
• Joe Browder
• Was able to save the Everglades jet planes, a
  mass transit system, and urban sprawl

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Studying the Everglades Preventing the
Destruction of the Ecosystem

• Undersecretary of the interior Russell E. Train
  persuaded the Governor to authorize a study
  about the Everglades
• Luna Leopold
• It is necessary to grasp the most important
  fact about the Everglades namely that it is not
  a great swamp, as it appears, but actually a
  free-flowing river
• Port Authority was extremely adamant about
  building the jet port and how it would bring a
  city in the middle of SW Florida
• Alan Stewart Well keep a few trees up and hire
  an Indian guide to take tourists on jungle
  cruises well protect your environment.
• June 1969 Hearings
• Committee members voted against the jetport with
  the scientific backing from Leopold

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