Big things are happening at Friends of the Everglades.

Under the leadership of our executive director Eve Samples, we’ve been growing fast — and fighting harder than ever to protect Florida’s wild places.

Eve, a Miami native and former journalist (just like our founder Marjory Stoneman Douglas), recently sat down with Miami Today to talk about what fuels our work — and why being a “nuisance where it counts” is exactly what this moment calls for.