Everglades Restoration Project

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The paper briefly examines government initiation of the project, then reviews the causes of change in the Everglades National Park since its creation in 1947. The paper lists numerous examples of environmental damage done before returning to an examination of the political and economic forces arrayed both before and against the project. The paper itemizes six individual work projects incorporated into the overall restoration project, including their estimated costs. In conclusion, the paper argues that there is no justification to opposing the project because it merely reverses damage clearly done by man over the last half century.

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"There is no doubt that a good deal of the decline and worse are man's fault. A water control systems of canal and levees and even locks prevent water from flowing, as nature had intended, sometimes shutting off a water supply ample enough for a population like the wood stork. Even the rainfall is now sometimes shunted away from the Everglades. And, one must remember that the Everglades national park comprises only about one-fifth of the total Everglades area. Man is also responsible for pollutants, as a result of agricultural chemicals and other chemicals as the result of human expansion into the once-pristine area. High levels of mercury, for example, are now found up and down the so-called food chain, from fish in the marsh through raccoons and alligators. Among the disappearing species, wildlife conservationists point to the Florida panther, a species now so endangered that there may be less than 30 left in the entire state of Florida."

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