"There is no quiet place in the white man's cities.

What is there to life if man cannot hear

the lonely cry of the whippoorwill

or the arguments of frogs

around a pond at night?"

Chief Seattle, 1854

Cow Pen Slough,

Chief Chipco's Territory

More than a century ago, Chief Chipco's hunting ground was

Cow Pen Slough, and he had two camps near the area. Echo Emathla Chopco, pronounced 'Chipco' by the settlers, stands as an example to us all for his courage in overcoming hatred and doing what is right. By the end of his life the settlers called him

"a lover of peace, and a friend of the white man."

Chipco was so well known and respected that when he died at an advanced age in 1881, newspapers all across the southeastern United States ran his obituary.

Help us preserve the "Old Florida,"

a Vanishing Natural Treasure.