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The swamp by michael grunwald5/19/2023 ![]() Through gripping narrative and dogged reporting, Grunwald shows how the Everglades is still threatened by the same hubris, greed, and well-intentioned folly that led to its decline. And The Swamp is a cautionary tale for that era. ![]() That plan is already the blueprint for a new worldwide era of ecosystem restoration. ![]() Grunwald shows how a new breed of visionaries transformed Everglades politics, producing the $8 billion rescue plan. The River of Grass stopped flowing, and 90 percent of its wading birds vanished. And though the southern Everglades was preserved as a national park, it soon deteriorated into an ecological mess. ![]() The history of the destruction and partial restoration of the. But the Army Corps of Engineers finally tamed the beast with levees and canals, converting half the Everglades into sprawling suburbs and sugar plantations. The Swamp is a well-researched, convincing argument for saving a rich and diverse ecosystem. In this book, Michael Grunwald chronicles how a series of visionaries tried to drain and "reclaim" it, and how Mother Nature refused to bend to their will in the most harrowing tale, a 1928 hurricane drowned 2,500 people in the Everglades. ![]() In this book, Michael Grunwald chronicles how. The Everglades was America's last frontier, a wild country long after the West was won. The Everglades was Americas last frontier, a wild country long after the West was won. Michael Grunwald, a prize-winning national reporter for The Washington Post, takes readers on a riveting journey from the Ice Ages to the present. ![]()
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