The Everglades and Francis S. Taylor Wildlife Management Area is part of the unique ecosystem that Marjory Stoneman Douglas called the River of Grass. It's really two huge water storage impoundments that date back to the early 1950s when the priority of state and federal officials was draining western portions of Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties for farms and homes. Francis S. Taylor, a World War II veteran from New Jersey who moved south after the war, fought to make it more than that, to improve and protect the WMA and the Everglades as a whole for the creatures that live there and for future generations of us humans.
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