To provide decision makers and water managers with objective, high quality advice on scientific and engineering issues pertaining to understanding, preserving and restoring the fauna and flora of the Everglades/Florida Bay ecosystem.
The Everglades
"There are no other Everglades in the world. ...They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth, remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them: their vast glittering openness, wider than the enormous visible round of the horizon, the racing free saltness and sweetness of their massive winds, under the dazzling blue heights of space. They are unique also in the simplicity, the diversity and the related harmony of the forms of life they enclose. The miracle of light pours over the green and brown expanse of sawgrass and of water, shining and slow-moving below, the grass and water that is the central fact of the Everglades of Florida. It is a river of grass."
Marjory Stoneman Douglas The Everglades ~ River of Grass 1947, Pineapple Press
"Here are no lofty peaks seeking the sky, no mighty glaciers or rushing streams wearing away the uplifted land. Here is land, tranquil in its quiet beauty, serving not as the source of water but as the last receiver of it. To its natural abundance we owe the spectacular plant and animal life that distinguishes this place from all others in our country."
President Harry S. Truman Address at dedication of Everglades National Park December 6, 1947
About Watersheds
Everglades/Florida Bay
