Friends of the Everglades

An appeals court initially allowed the detention center to keep operating after proceeding on the understanding that Florida had not applied for federal funding, even though records obtained later show the state already had

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