A comment at the July MG meeting by our speaker, president of the local Audubon Society, started me thinking about the Everglades and how the recovery of this ‘River of Grass’ is progressing. Restoring the Everglades has been a rallying cry for conservationists for many years. Marjory Stoneman Douglas So why should we care about some swampy land in South Florida? Since becoming a state in 1824, “two-thirds of our original freshwater wetlands have been filled or drained. ( Priceless ! 1