1. President Truman And The River Of Grass
... environmental impact study, fearing it could kill the development project (Vito). Support for conservation was slow to gain public support at first. In Daniel Beard's Wildlife Reconnaissance: Everglades National Park Project of 1938, the first superintendent of Everglades National Park remarks, "To put it crudely, there is nothing (and we include the bird rookeries) in the Everglades that will ... provide some measure of protection to the area, and in 1946 the Florida Legislature appropriated $2 million for the purchase of certain private lands in the Everglades (NPS/Park Establishment)....
- Word Count: 1949
- Approx Pages: 8
- Has Bibliography
- Grade Level: Undergraduate