Records of the Florida Defenders of the Environment 1943-1994 1969-1994

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Records of the Florida Defenders of the Environment 1943-1994 1969-1994

http://www.library.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/fde.htm

Documents of the Florida Defenders of the Environment, the majority of which deal with the fight to de-authorize the Cross Florida Barge Canal project.

35 Linear feet; 85 boxes

eng,

Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida

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Florida Audubon Society

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Carr, Marjorie Harris

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Florida Defenders of the Environment

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The Florida Defenders of the Environment (FDE) was established in 1969 in Gainesville by Marjorie Harris Carr, Bill Partington, John Couse, and other scientists, economists, and lawyers who were concerned about the Florida ecosystem. It was the successor to an earlier group known as the Alachua Audubon Society. The organization's primary focus was to stop the construction of the Cross Florida Barge Canal, which was designed to cut across the middle of the state in order to improve t...