Defenders of the Everglades
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<p><strong>Stories of people fighting against a decades-old environmental battle in the Everglades. </strong><br><br>In the 1960s, plans to build the world’s largest jetport were underway. Environmentalists like Marjory Stoneman Douglas pushed back. She founded the organization Friends of the Everglades with the sole purpose of stopping construction. Her group and others put so much pressure on local, state, and federal governments that construction was stopped, and the jetport plans were scrapped. Now, on the same runway, there are rows of tents and temporary structures. It’s an immigration detention center the state dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”</p><p><br>Environmental groups, including the one Douglas started to close the jetport are suing to shut it down. Lawyers are citing the same laws put in place after the jetport. We look back 60 years ago and talk to those who thought this battle was fought and won. </p>
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4/14/2026
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Recent Episodes
June 10, 2026
Episode 8: The Finale
In the final episode, Your Florida tells the story of the rise and fall of the immigration detention center nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz.” From people who’ve fought to stop operations at the facility, to those who fought against plans to build the world’s largest jetport at the same site more than 50 years ago – it all comes together here.
June 3, 2026
Episode 7: Behind the Scenes
Your Florida spent nearly a year reporting on the detention center dubbed Alligator Alcatraz, and the history beneath it. WUSF’s host of Florida Matters Live & Local, Matthew Peddie, talks to the team, Meghan Bowman and Amy Tardif, about how they put it all together.
May 27, 2026
There'd be Tears
Elam Stoltzfus is a documentarian. Years ago, he interviewed Nathaniel Reed, Joe Browder, and Clyde Butcher for a film about the Big Cypress National Preserve. Stoltzfuz shared some of those with Your Florida to help tell the story of the Everglades Jetport. Now, Stoltzfus shares how he thinks Reed and Browder would feel about a detention center on the same land they worked so hard to protect.
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- What is Defenders of the Everglades?
<p><strong>Stories of people fighting against a decades-old environmental battle in the Everglades. </strong><br><br>In the 1960s, plans to build the world’s largest jetport were underway. Environmentalists like Marjory Stoneman Douglas pushed back. She founded the organization Friends of the Everglades with the sole purpose of stopping construction. Her group and others put so much pressure on local, state, and federal governments that construction was stopped, and the jetport plans were scrapped. Now, on the same runway, there are rows of tents and temporary structures. It’s an immigration detention center the state dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”</p><p><br>Environmental groups, including the one Douglas started to close the jetport are suing to shut it down. Lawyers are citing the same laws put in place after the jetport. We look back 60 years ago and talk to those who thought this battle was fought and won. </p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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