Saving the Everglades

The Everglades is not a swamp but a river — sixty miles wide and a few inches deep, moving so slowly you cannot see it. This profile follows the people working to undo a century of drainage and send the water south again.

The work

Restoration here is measured in decades, not seasons. Removing a single levee can take years of permitting before the first scoop of earth is moved.

“We are not restoring a postcard. We are restoring a flow.” — a field biologist on the project

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