Background Original Everglades East Coast Protective Levee Lake Okeechobee Everglades Agricultural Area Water Conservation Areas Shark River Slough Activism

BACKGROUND

In less than one hundred years we have rerouted, uprooted and damaged the Everglades to a state of biological collapse. (1) The central section of the historic Everglades ecosystem is now a series of water storage or conservation areas managed primarily to provide flood control for developed East Coast communities.

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After

Main | History | Restoration
Environmentalist Perspective | Agriculture Perspective
Conclusions | Bibliography

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