Evie Metz

Dec 30, 2023 | outsideonline.com | Isabella Rosario |Evie Metz

“There are no other everglades in the world,” conservationist Marjory Stoneman Douglas wrote in 1947 in The Everglades: River of Grass. “They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth, remote, never wholly known.” To sisters Melanie and Evie Metz, who grew up in a small town near Everglades National Park, the only way to know this river of grass is to wade through its boggy expanse.