From Swamp to Wetland: The Creation of Everglades National Park

by Chris Wilhelm

Book Overview

This book chronicles the creation of Everglades National Park, the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States. This effort, which spanned 1928 to 1958, was of central importance to the later emergence of modern environmentalism. Prior to the park's creation, the Everglades was seen as a reviled and useless swamp, unfit for typical recreational or development projects. The region's unusual makeup also made it an unlikely candidate to become...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820362395
• ISBN13: 9780820362397
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"