The Everglades are are home to a dying breed, and they're not on any official endangered species list. While many would claim that the 'Glades would be environmentally better off once the breed is gone, Keith Price, Don Onstad and Charlie Erwin might beg to differ. "We are the protectors of the Everglades," Charlie Erwin said in a Miami Herald article ("Iconic airboats won’t be part of Everglades culture for much longer").
The three men are among the last of the private airboaters operating in the Everglades National Park. Officials in the park are trying to phase out the airboats, allowing those remaining to be grandfathered in. Once those airboaters are gone, though, others will not be allowed to take their place, if officials have their way.
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