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Appendix D: A Brief History of the Everglades
Appendix D: A Brief History of the Everglades
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These and other projects were undertaken primarily for flood control, to support agriculture, and to provide dry land for development, and they have led to severe ecological consequences. Currently, by comparison with the earliest available estimates of the ecosystem and its components, populations of wading birds have declined by 85-95 percent; 68 plant and animal species are threatened or endangered; over 1.5 million acres are 34
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Tavern odometer,, Thee i 1h response to these alarming ecological trends, the federal Water Resources Development Act of 1992 (WRDA) authorized a massive and comprehensive review of the Central and Southern Florida Project to examine the potential for restoration of the Greater Everglades Ecosystem.
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The current Restoration Plan and its individual projects are designed to achieve more natural controls of the half of the Everglades ecosystem that remains after more than a century of extensive human alterations to the ecosystem (Figure Dug. The broad goals of the Restoration Plan are "to restore the natural hydrology of south Florida, to enhance and recover native habitats and species, and revitalize urban core areas to reduce the outward migration of suburbs and improve the quality of life in core areas" (SFERTF, 1998)
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The first of these is the Science Coordination Team or SCT (http://www.strestore.org/sct/index.htmI) , which has evolved from the Science Subgroup established in 1993 by the South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Task Force as an interagency science advisory team.
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COMPREHENSIVE EVERGLADES RESTORATION PLAN GOALS The overarching goal of the CERP is to "get the water right" by restoring historic hydrologic conditions in the natural ecosystem. The objectives of the CERP are to create historic quantities, quality, timing, and distribution of water in the natural system while at the same time providing fresh water to the built environment and protecting the built environment from flooding.
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