 This small victory by conservationists soon led to the more difficult battle previously described and more widely noted, against the International Airport.Browder secured a federal mandate to prevent water from being diverted from the then-dying Everglades National Park.Browder conferred with the Nixon administration, and finally with President Richard Nixon, in a successful effort to save the Everglades from encroachment through development of an already commenced project to build a new Miami International Airport, in what is now part of the National Park system in the Everglades.