Can
This Swamp Be Saved?
Bold Everglades-protection strategies may revive the river of
grass
The most ambitious ecological
restoration project in history is aimed at undoing the past century's
damage to the sensitive Everglades ecosystem.
Further Readings:
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' plan to re-plumb the southern end
of Florida is outlined at http://restudy.org/.
Information about the South Florida Water Management District's work
with the corps to implement the restoration plans is available at
http://www.sfwmd.gov.
Information about the South Florida Ecosystem Taskforce bringing
together local, state, and federal government; Native American tribes;
landowners; agricultural interests; and environmentalists is available
at http://www.sfrestore.org.
Information about the Conservancy of Southwest Florida buying up
land to protect the west coast's natural flowways is available at
http://www.conservancy.org.
Sources:
Tom Adams
National Audubon Society
1901 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Suite 1100
Washington, DC 20006
Nick Aumen
South Florida Water Management District
3301 Gun Club Road
West Palm Beach, FL 33406
Michael L. Davis
U.S. Department of the Army
Civil Works
108 Army Pentagon
Room 2E570
Washington, DC 20310-0108
David E. Guggenheim
The Conservancy of Southwest Florida
1450 Merrihue Drive
Naples, FL 34102
Lance Gunderson
Emory University
Department of Environmental Studies
Atlanta, GA 30322
Stuart L. Pimm
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
542 Hesler Biology and Greenho
Knoxville, TN 37996
From Science
News, Vol. 155, No. 16, April 17,
1999, p. 252. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.
