Progress Toward Restoring the Everglades The Second Biennial Review - 2008 (2008) / Chapter Skim
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This unprecedented project envisioned the expenditure of billions of dollars in a multi-decadal effort to achieve ecological restoration by restoring the hydrologic characteristics of the Everglades, where feasible, and to create a water system that simultaneously serves the needs of both the natural and the human systems of South Florida. Within this 21st-century social, economic, and political latticework, the restoration of the South Florida ecosystem is now under way, representing one of the most ambitious ecosystem renewal projects ever conceived.
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, which operated from 1999 until 2004, was formed at the request of the South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Task Force (hereafter, simply Task Force) , and the committee pro duced six reports (NRC, 2001, 2002a, 2002b, 2003a, 2003b, 2005)
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The boundaries of the South Florida ecosystem are determined by the boundaries of the South Florida Water Management District, the southernmost of the state's five water management districts, although they approximately delineate the boundaries of the South Florida watershed. This designation is important and is helpful to the restoration effort because, as many publications have made clear, taking a watershed approach to ecosystem restoration is likely to improve the results, especially when the ecosystem under consideration is as water dependent as the Everglades (NRC, 1999, 2004)
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. To help it evaluate restoration progress, the committee met seven times over the course of this review; received briefings at its public meetings from agencies, organizations, and individuals involved in the restoration, as well as from the public; and took several field trips to sites with restoration activities (see Acknowledgments)
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Introduction 19 FIGURE 1-2 The South Florida ecosystem. © International Mapping Associates Figure 1-3.eps bitmap
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20 Progress Toward Restoring the Everglades FIGURE 1-3 Land and waters managed by the1-2.eps Figure state of Florida and the federal government as of December 2005 for conservation purposes within the South Florida ecosystem. bitmap SOURCE: Based on data compiled by Florida State University's Florida Natural Areas Inventory (http://www.fnai.org/gisdata.cfm)
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REPORT ORGANIZATION Chapter 2 is an overview of the CERP in the context of other ongoing restoration activities and discusses the restoration goals that guide the overall effort. Restoration challenges and their implications for achievement of restoration goals by the CERP are discussed by analyzing recent changes to the natural system and larger-scale changes associated with population growth and climate change, which provide additional challenges for the CERP but make its implementation more rather than less urgent.
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