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Environmentalist Joe Browder discussed the past and future of the Everglades
October 8, 2009
Joe Browder, an environmental consultant and former conservation director of Friends of the Earth, presented “Everglades Visions, Revisions, and History” on October 8, 2009. Browder emerged from the grassroots in the early 1960s to help save South Florida’s most precious natural wonders from unrestrained forces of growth. Jack Davis, associate professor of history at UF explained “he served as a principal figure in campaigns to establish Biscayne National Monument, win a federal mandate to prevent water diversion away from the dying Everglades National Park, stop the construction of the biggest airport in the world in the heart of the Everglades and create Big Cypress National Preserve.”