The Everglades is a natural region of flooded grasslands in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Florida, comprising the southern half of a large drainage basin within the Neotropical realm. The
The most prominent feature of the Everglades are the sawgrass prairies found across the region.
A satellite image of the Everglades, taken in March 2019
Hurricane Charley in 2004 moving ashore on South Florida's Gulf of Mexico coast
A storm over the Shark River in the Everglades, 1966
Marjory Stoneman Douglas was an American journalist, author, women's suffrage advocate, and conservationist known for her staunch defense of the Everglades against efforts to drain it and reclaim land
The Stoneman and Trefethen extended family in 1893. Marjory is held by her father on the far right.
Marjory Stoneman in her senior year at Wellesley College
Military record of Douglas in the Navy.