Everglades National Park protects a large part of the Florida Everglades, a vast, slow-moving river of grass in the south of the state. It was dedicated by President Harry Truman in 1947, the year that Marjory Stoneman Douglas published her influential book The Everglades: River of Grass. It was the first national park created to protect a fragile ecosystem rather than scenic landscape. The park is home to wildlife such as the American alligator, the Florida panther and the manatee, and it is the only place where alligators and crocodiles live side by side. Drainage and canal building outside its borders have disrupted the flow of water, and a large restoration program was launched in 2000.
Before and after
- 20 November 1947Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten
- from 30 November 1947 to 14 May 19481947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine
- from 30 November 1947 to 20 July 19491948 Palestine war
- December 1947Transistor
- 6 December 1947Establishment of Everglades National Park
- 14 December 1947Construction of Bernabéu
- 14 December 1947Birth of Dilma Rousseff
- 1948Origins of Nippon Professional Baseball
- 1948Founding of Organization of American States
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