Before 1947 when Marjory Stoneman Douglas named The Everglades a ampquotriver of grassampquot most people considered the area worthless. She brought the worldamp39s attention to the need to preserve The Everglades. In the Afterword Michael Grunwald tells us what has happened to them since then. Grunwald points out that in 1947 the government was in the midst of establishing the Everglades National Park and turning loose the Army Corps of Engineers to control floodsboth of which seemed like saviors for the Glades. But neither turned out to be the answer. Working from the research he did for his book The Swamp Grunwald offers an account of what went wrong and the many attempts to fix it beginning with Save Our Everglades which Douglas declared was ampquotnot nearly enough.ampquot Grunwald then lays out the intricacies and inanities of the more recent and ongoing CERP the hugely expensive Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan.