Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Marjory Stoneman Douglas was an American journalist and conservationist whose writing and advocacy helped protect the Florida Everglades.

Everglades National Park: A protected area in southern Florida established in 1947 to conserve the Everglades ecosystem. Douglas’s advocacy helped build support for protecting the ecosystem as a national park.
Miami Herald: A daily newspaper based in Miami, Florida, founded in 1903. Douglas worked at the newspaper and developed the reporting skills she later brought to conservation.
Ernest F. Coe: An American landscape architect who campaigned for a national park in the Florida Everglades. Coe’s park campaign and Douglas’s public advocacy helped advance the same conservation cause.
Everglades: A vast subtropical wetland in southern Florida shaped by shallow water flowing slowly southward. Douglas’s conservation writing centered on the Everglades as a connected regional ecosystem.
Environmental journalism: Journalism that investigates environmental issues, ecological change, and human effects on nature. Douglas’s reporting and books exemplify how journalism can make conservation issues public.
The Everglades: River of Grass: Douglas’s 1947 book that described the Everglades as a slow-moving river and argued for its conservation. This influential book made her case for preserving the Everglades to a broad public.
Miami: A major city in southeastern Florida on the Atlantic coast. Douglas spent much of her life in Miami, where she witnessed changes to the surrounding landscape.
David Fairchild: An American botanist and plant explorer who helped establish the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden. Fairchild was Douglas’s father and a prominent botanical figure in her family background.
Kissimmee River: A Florida river that flows south into Lake Okeechobee and historically fed the Everglades. Its water links the northern watershed to the ecosystem Douglas defended.
Conservation movement: Organized efforts to protect natural environments and manage natural resources sustainably. Her work joined a broader movement while giving Everglades protection a distinctive voice.

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Wellesley CollegeRelated: She graduated from Wellesley in 1912 and became a leading environmental advocate.