Editing Everglades (section)

====Everglades National Park====
[[File:Harry Truman at Everglades National Park.jpg|thumb|President [[Harry Truman]] dedicating [[Everglades National Park]] on December 6, 1947]]
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The idea of a national park for the Everglades was pitched in 1928, when a Miami land developer named [[Ernest F. Coe]] established the Everglades Tropical National Park Association. It had enough support to be declared a national park by Congress in 1934. It took another 13&nbsp;years to be dedicated on December 6, 1947.<ref name="enpsite">{{cite web| title = Conservation efforts| publisher = National Park Service| work = Everglades National Park| date = September 17, 2007| url = http://www.nps.gov/ever/historyculture/consefforts.htm| access-date = 2008-05-10}}</ref> One month before the dedication of the park, a former editor from ''[[The Miami Herald]]'' and freelance writer named [[Marjory Stoneman Douglas]] released her first book titled ''[[The Everglades: River of Grass]]''. After researching the region for five years, she described the history and ecology of South Florida in great detail. She characterized the Everglades as a river instead of a stagnant swamp.<ref name="davis">{{cite journal | last1 = Davis | first1 = Jack | year = 2001 | title = Green Awakening: Social activism and the evolution of Marjory Stoneman Douglas's Environmental Consciousness | journal = The Florida Historical Quarterly | volume = 80 | issue = 1| pages = 43–77 }}</ref> The last chapter was titled "The Eleventh Hour" and warned that the Everglades were dying, although it could be reversed.<ref>Douglas, p.&nbsp;349.</ref>