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Douglas, Marjory Stoneman (1890–1998)

US author and conservationist. Her book, The Everglades: River of Grass (1947), warned of the environmental perils facing the region. She co-founded Friends of the Everglades and is widely credited with helping to slow the destruction of the swamp ecosystem.

She was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1912 and worked as a journalist and educator in Miami. As well as her ecological works, she also wrote several books of children's literature.
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Among those profiled are essayist and novelist Edward Abbey (1927-89), Jimmy Carter, journalist and Everglades champion Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Charles Lindbergh, monk Thomas Merton, poet Theodore Roethke, and Stewart Udall.
Modern American environmentalists; a biographical encyclopedia by Reference & Research Book News
org AN EVERGLADES PROVIDENCE: MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS AND THE AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL CENTURY is a 'must' for any library strong in social or environmental history.
An Everglades Providence by California Bookwatch
GOVERNMENT-PROTECTED PARKS & REFUGES The region's most extensive refuge lands, in Everglades National Park, were saved from disaster as they balanced on the brink, thanks to the efforts of Marjory Stoneman Douglas.
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