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Substantial collection of clippings, mainly from South Florida newsletters, on environmental issues: the condition of the Everglades, droughts, the 1970 jetport and Turkey Point controversies, Key deer, development and preservation projects. Though it covers the activities of the Society and its president, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, the bulk of the collection deals with four years of ongoing and often emotional public debate on the well-being of South Florida's ecology and economy

Letters and notes to Marjory Stoneman Douglas are mostly from William C. Sturtevant, Curator of the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution. Contains research notes on Britton Hammon and plans to reprint Hammon's narrative, "Notes on The Uncommon sufferings of a Negro man in Florida and Cuba, 1747-1760. Also included is a hand written manuscript by Douglas for an article entitled, "Green," that was published in the Village Post.