The Florida Everglades Essays -- Ecology of Everglades

IntroductionMaintaining ecological diversity is necessary for the excerpt of a biological community. In the United States, American citizens are on the verge of irrevocably damaging one of the countrys most unique and versatile treasures - the Florida Everglades. This national park is now the only remaining patch of a river that used to span 120 miles from Lake Okeechobee to the Florida Bay. Dikes and levees created by the Army Corps of Engineers in the late 1940s drained this river to reduce flooding and increase useable peeing for the development of the region. This major diversion of water lead to a drool down effect causing the continual decline of the environmental plead of the Everglades. Since then, debates over the Everglades future have silently raged on for years rough how, why, and when the restoration will begin. This ongoing, but virtually unproductive effort has improvement taxpayers a great deal without any apparent benefits. Recently, this debate has been ampli fied by the voices of the sugar industry in Florida, which was attacked for its major contribution to pollution of the Everglades. like a shot debates rage on with a new effort called the Restudy. Backed by the Army Corps of Engineers, this effort would change the flow of the Everglades, potentially restoring it into the operable community of life that it used to be. The question now is, will this latest attempt to restore the Everglades ever be realized (thus ending the cyclic Everglades debate) or will it simply add up to one more notch on the bedpost of inadequate and failed attempts to save this national treasure. The world is observance to see how the United States will handle this unprecedented cleanup.The Everglades Defined here are no lofty peaks seeking ... ...Science News, 155, 252-254. Lauber, P. (1973). Everglades Country. New York The Viking Press.Levin, T. (1998, June/July). Listening to wildlife in the Everglades. National Wildlife, 36, 20- 31. McCally, D. (199 9). The Everglades An Environmental History. Gainsville University Press of Florida.Myers, V. (1994, December). The Everglades Researchers take a new approach to an old problem. Sea Frontiers, 40, 15-16.Regaldo, Nanciann. Planning for South Floridas future The Central and southerly Florida Project. Online. National Park Service Homepage. Internet. 21 September 1999. Available www.nps.govReichhardt, T. (1999, February). Everglades devise flawed, claim ecologists. Nature, 397, 462.Richey, W. (1997, August). Saving Everglades Who should pay? Christian Science Monitor, 89, 3.Wasserman, H. (1996, December). Burnt Sugar. Nation, 263, 6.