Tag: Everglades Agricultural Area
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Everglades Foundation prosecutes former top scientist for criminal contempt in case that’s roiling Florida environmentalists
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org If Marjory Stoneman Douglas had a grave, she’d be rolling in it. The pioneering environmentalist and famed “Mother of the Everglades,” whose ashes were famously scattered across Everglades National Park wilderness upon her death in 1998 at age 108, could hardly have imagined two of the Everglades’ leading champions on opposite…
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SFWMD’s last minute move to extend sugarcane lease triggers hearing demand
By Katherine Lewin FloridaBulldog.org Nineteen years ago, the South Florida Water Management District bought 16,158 rural acres south of Lake Okeechobee leased for sugar cane farming as part of the massive Everglades restoration project. But one night last month, just hours before the district’s morning meeting, a resolution was quietly added to the governing board’s…