Founded
In 1947, the Everglades was established as a National Park, although in 1934 a bill passed Congress making the Everglades a National Park, they need time to , come up with both the land and the funding needed for the park. It was a established with the help advocates to preserve the natural landscape and stop the destruction being done its land, plants, and animals.
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Background History
The Everglades being dredgedBefore the Everglades became a National Park it faced many challenges. In 1900, the long, white plumes of some birds that lived in the Everglades had become extremely valuable. Feathers were in style, and trendy, in that time period no woman's hat was finished without an assortment of plumes. To keep up with the demand for the feather nearly five million, equivalent to 95 percent, of Florida's shore birds had been killed. Some people even suggested, and began to, drain the Everglades, so that way the land could be sold and turned into vegetable fields, sugar can plantations, cattle ranches, which happened to much of the norther Everglades. Some of the land sold was still under water! Then, finally in the late 1920's. The Florida Federation of Women's Clubs, a small movement, was committed to trying to protect as much of the remaining Everglades as they could, they even bought 120-acres of land named it Royal Palms and give it to the state, to be saved. Because of how much of the year was considered swampy many people questioned if it met the standards to become a national park. Although, supports said that the massive ecosystem and magnificent wildlife need to be save.