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The Everglades Ecosystem

The Everglades stretches over 100 miles from the Kissimmee River and Lake Okeechobee around Disney World through Florida Bay. It's dying. It has been ditched, diked, and drained for a century. The Everglades is under assault from pollution.

Only half of the Everglades is left, 50% has been drained. Of the nesting wading birds that existed in the 1930's, 94% are gone. The Everglades is the sole source of drinking water for more than 6 million people in Miami-Dade, Monroe and Palm Beach counties.

The Everglades is undergoing the largest environmental repair job in human history.  The Army Corps of Engineers is re-plumbing the system to save it.  At stake is the only wetland of its kind in the world.  It is home to over 50 endangered and threatened species.  This is more than any other state except California.  There are fewer than 50 Florida Panthers left. 

 

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Articles and more

Naples Daily News article October 2003

Everglades Special Report by: L. Brand

Glades Standard Challenge

FL sells out Everglades to Sugar Barons

Flushing the Caloosahatchee

Cliff Kolber The Road to Pahayokee

Cliff Kolber Loop Road

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