Friends of the Everglades

A panther walks within the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge, which is 41 square miles of unfenced land meant to give the far-ranging animal some room to hunt and breed amid South Florida's growing population, although one of three villages within the Town of Big Cypress — and the new roads and additional vehicle traffic that comes with with it, is within a mile or so of the refuge, angering environmentalists.

The Everglades Story is being presented free online by Friends of the Everglades, a nonprofit environmental group founded in 1969 by Marjory Stoneman Douglas