A skirmish over who will run the beloved Biscayne Nature Center founded by famed environmentalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas is squaring off between the longtime nonprofit that helped create it and Miami-Dade County park officials.

Earlier this month, park officials thanked the nonprofit for its “tireless efforts” and ordered it to pack up by November, according to a letter first reported by the Key Biscayne Independent, a WLRN News partner.

The nonprofit, led by one of Douglas’ friends and a member of a cadre of women conservationists dubbed “Marjory’s Army,” said the eviction order caught the group completely by surprise.

The group has no plans to abandon a mission that for generations has helped introduce wild Florida to school children, said Theodora Long, the nonprofit’s director

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