Waters of Destiny - Taming the Everglades, the determined hand of man - 1/3

First of three parts of the complete film (late 1950s) from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Central and South Florida Flood Control District -- renamed in 1972 as the South Florida Water Management District.

Wildlife photography is by E.W. Dutton; filmed in Kodachrome.

The full-length version is here:
http://www.floridamemory.com/PhotographicCollection/video/video.cfm?VID=30 (26:50 minutes)

For other videos from the State Archives of Florida, visit
http://www.floridamemory.com/photographiccollection/videofilm2/

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This is an superb overview: Everglades History - Man vs Nature (Hootch TV)
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekwOBo-sI3g (6:33 minutes)
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhCr1hTcfAA (6:26 minutes)
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUOutl8D5Po (5:01 minutes)
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A38wfoVG7q0 (5:42 minutes)

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River of Interests: Water Management in South Florida and the Everglades, 1948-2000
by Matthew C. Godfrey, Historian, Historical Research Associates, Inc. with contributions by Theodore Catton
http://www.evergladesplan.org/about/river_interest_history.aspx

In the spring of 2004, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers commissioned Historical Research Associates, Inc. (HRA), to complete a study of the water resources system in South Florida (generally the region south of Orlando) from 1948 to 2000. This history was to include a discussion of all interests involved in water management -- whether federal, state, or local -- rather than just focusing on the history of the Corps' Central and Southern Florida Flood Control Project (C&SF Project), first instituted in 1948.

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