As we reflect on the final days of 2024, Friends of the Everglades executive director Eve Samples brings you your Voice of the Everglades update:
Friends,
There’s a pocket of green space near my house where things are always changing. The muhly grass bloomed last month; the spider lilies are popping now. Bromeliads burst with color then go dormant. The osprey and pileated woodpecker are making a beautiful racket lately.
If someone tells you Florida doesn’t have seasons, they aren’t paying close attention.
This holiday season, I hope you can get out and enjoy the restorative gifts of our tropical and subtropical landscape. Our Friends of the Everglades team will be doing the same — and fortifying ourselves for the hard work that lies ahead to protect it.
Thank you for all the ways you empower our mission to preserve, protect and restore the only Everglades in the world.
For the Everglades,
Eve Samples
