Opening ceremonies at the Jetport groundbreaking on September 18, 1969, featured models of jet airplanes. In the 1960s, a proposal was made to build the world's largest jetport in the heart of the ...

Everglades National Park was established in 1947. The same year, Marjory Stoneman Douglas published The Everglades: River of Grass, highlighting the region’s unique landscapes and diverse wildlife.

An immigration detention center in the Everglades stirred up a decades-old environmental battle. Hear from people who helped in the fight.

The jetport fight — which Browder says “fell apart of its own flaws” — had galvanized a national movement around Everglades restoration. Four years later, Big Cypress was named a national preserve, ...

How strange it feels to find two of the big Florida environmental fights of the late 1960s and early 1970s are back in the news — the Everglades Jetport and the Cross-Florida Barge Canal. Still crazy ...