Joe Bartles Browder (April 10, 1938 – September 18, 2016) was an American environmental activist who spearheaded ongoing efforts to save the Florida Everglades. He was considered to be a global environmental advocate. He was an advisor on energy, climate change, environmental policy to public-interest groups, foundations, auto and energy companies, other businesses, Native American tribes and government agencies. He started out his career as a television news reporter, an active volunteer and later a paid representative for Audubon (the National Audubon Society). No one can be credited more, within a non-political conservation establishment, for the national environmental movement taking the country from the first Earth Day to the election of Jimmy Carter, for whom Browder was an early companion in the early days of Florida primary campaigning Biography Browder's place of birth is Amarillo, Texas. Browder worked for NBC (Miami, Florida) as a television news report and producer. He was married to Marion Edey and later to Louise Dunlap. He was active in saving the Everglades since 1961 up until his death. He is recognized as being responsible in founding the Biscayne National Park (1968) and the Big Cypress National Preserve (1974), both in Florida. The Bob Graham Center for Public Service, (Florida Senator), states that Browder "emerged from the grassroots in the early 1960s to help save South Florida’s most precious natural wonders from unrestrained forces of growth." Because of Browder's work in spearheading the creation of the Big Cypress National Preserve, The National Park Service eventually named Browder "Citizen Father of the Big Cypress Preserve". He died at the age of 78 on September 18, 2016, of cancer, in Maryland. Organizations, affiliations National Audubon Society (Officer) – Miami, Florida chapter, Southeaster US Representative (1968–1970) Coordinator of the Everglades Coalition (founder) Managing Global Issues project – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Conservation Director of Friends of the Earth League of Conservation Voters (treasurer) Advisory Council of the InterAmerican Water Resources Network Mato Gross [Brazil] do Sul Environment Secretary Emiko Kawakmi de Resende (co-chairman). Inter-American Dialogue on Water Management – Natural Resources section (Miami, 1993) Everglades Coalition (national chair, 1994, 1995) Third Inter-American Dialogue on Water Resources (Host Committee member, Panama, 1999) World Water Council's Water Vision for the Western Hemisphere program – Water and Indigenous Peoples section. (Panama, 1999). René Dubos Center for Human Environments (board member). Boards of Friends of the everglades Friends of the Big Cypress