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12-Nov-00
Everglades restoration to begin with a trickle
Congress has signed off, and a potential rebirth for the Everglades is just a presidential signature away. The bill expected to soon be signed by President Clinton is, by no exaggeration, historic. ... The U.S. House and Senate have passed only a conceptual plan for the project, a framework that needs to be filled in with details. ... Even though everyone has bought into the idea of an Everglades rescue, the consensus that led to congressional approval could break down as the plan solidifies and it becomes clear who gets what water and what land is going to be flooded, said Don Chinquina, executive director for the Tropical Audubon Society. "I think that's where a lot of the fights are going to be," he said. For the Corps, the complexity of its Everglades work is about to "skyrocket," Appelbaum said. After Clinton signs the Everglades bill into law, he said: "We'll have a great sigh of relief and roll up our sleeves for the next 30 years."
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Opinion: Coming to judgment about South Florida's future
After the election's decided, South Florida still faces its own tough issues. More profound than last week's election to the future of South Florida is the ability of its residents -- all of us -- to deal with future population growth and economic vitality of our community. ... Starting next Sunday, Nov. 19, The Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald and The South Florida Sun-Sentinel together will examine the region's future prospects in a four-part series. This unprecedented cooperation by three competing newspapers indicates the importance of these vital issues. ... Anticipating that significant discussion will emerge from these articles and subsequent activity, the Collins Center has set up a special website to encourage your participation in this challenging dialogue: http://www.collinscenter.org
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What is the future of South Florida?
... Starting next Sunday, The Sun-Sentinel, the Miami Herald, and El Nuevo Heraldwill examine the region's future in a four-part series covering business, diversity, development and transportation. This unprecedented cooperation by the three newspapers indicates the importance of these vital issues. The Collins Center for Public Policy, a non-profit organization committed to independent thought and action, is proud to join the Herald and Sun-Sentinel in sponsoring "The Citistate Project" by two award-winning, nationally known journalists, Neal Peirce and Curtis Johnson.
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Homestead jetport's future increasingly rides on money
Backers, opponents spending millions in fight over commercial development. If big lobbying bucks are any indicator, the Homestead jetport decision seems increasingly likely to turn more on political influence than environmental impact. Now, with a long-awaited Air Force final environmental assessment of the airport due within weeks, the behind-the-scenes maneuvers have emerged as another messy skirmish in the long battle, with accusations of questionable tactics from both sides. The newest charges came in a lawsuit that five residents filed against the Ocean Reef Community Association over its role. The suit revealed that the homeowners' group had put Alan Farago, long the Sierra Club's point man against the jetport, on its payroll, with $250,000 in contracts.
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How Conservation Grew from a Whisper to a Roar
A special report highlighting many of the milestones of the past 10 decades. ... A ripple effect from public outrage over the 1905 murder of Guy Bradley, an Audubon warden, as he worked to protect Florida birds from plume seekers, helped lead to the 1913 passage of the Migratory Bird Act. The legislation set uniform limits on hunting. Also, by declaring that birds flying over state lines were a form of interstate commerce, the act overruled conflicting or lax state laws. Spring hunting and night shooting were banned, though defiance was widespread, reflecting the nation's deep divisions over conservation.
(National Wildlife Federation)
Federal, State Officers Honored for Contributions to Wildlife Conservation
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Special Agent Robert Douglas Goessman and
Sergeant Charles Beatty, who works with the Division of Fish and Wildlife
Protection of the Alaska Department of Public Safety, have received the
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation's 2000 Guy Bradley Award. The award,
which honors outstanding wildlife law enforcement officers,
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11-Nov-00
Editorial
With 'Glades plan law, start on the problems
...Here are just a few of the concerns that advocates for the Everglades see coming: ...Lake Okeechobee must be cleaned up. Cleanup money must come from the state. The plan doesn't include a way to connect the lake to the Everglades. If farmers...might want to sell their land for development. ...there is no contingency plan to buy up the Everglades Agricultural Area. ... The plan relies on deep underground wells to store water...but the technology is shaky. Can water flowing to the Everglades be made clean enough? Will the Everglades National Park get the water it needs? Can the Everglades recover, even with clean water? Daunting as the problems are, the state is now free to address them -- thanks to those who got the plan through Congress.
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Rainfall was just a drop in the bucket
The first rain in 37 days didn't provide much on Friday, but it was more than fell in all of October. Not that it would take a lot to beat October's total of .06 of an inch - about the thickness of a quarter.
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Treasure Coast Notes: Reed honored
Nathaniel Reed of Jupiter Island, former assistant to the U.S. secretary of the interior, has received the Conservation Service Award for his outstanding service as a nonemployee to the Department of the Interior. Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior, presented the award to Reed on Oct. 30. This is the highest honor the secretary can bestow on a private citizen.
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Treasure Coast Notes: Wildlife refuge needs you
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at the Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge is recruiting volunteers, 16 and older, for a variety of refuge management and preservation positions. Training programs and resource materials will prepare volunteers for tasks from clerical work and maintenance to aiding staff with public services and the removal of exotic pest plants. For more information about applications, interviews and orientation sessions, call Jennifer Tietjen at 561-546-6141, Nov. 17-19.
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Editorial
Residents should try to trim water use now: Given the outlook for a very dry winter, the sooner people restrict outdoor water use the better. ... We’re not happy with everything the water management district does, but it’s right to point out that much of the annual dry season problems arise from too much lawn irrigation. We insist on sustaining too much plant life that wasn’t designed for our dry winters. That pulls down the levels of underground aquifers, which are vital to our water supplies. Nature gave us plenty of water in Southwest Florida, so long as we don’t waste it by defying nature’s cycles.
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10-Nov-00Water shortage warnings issued for Collier, Lee
State water managers on Thursday issued a warning urging residents in Collier and Lee counties to cut back on washing their cars, watering their lawns and other water-related activities. Due to below-normal rainfall amounts in January through October the South Florida Water Management District governing board voted Thursday to issue a water shortage warning for the lower West Coast, which includes Collier and Lee.
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Planners preach virtues of 'smart growth' in building for Collier's future
Panelists at a symposium on growth Tuesday told a room mostly full of development industry consultants that citizen involvement is key to planning Collier County's future. "It's hard to have community without talking," said Alachua County Manager Randall Reed, a former deputy administrator overseeing growth management in Martin County. Reed joined other panelists at the Elks Club in Naples for a half-day symposium organized by the local section of the Florida chapter of the American Planning Association. About 100 people attended. Collier County has been taking a new look at its growth plan since Gov. Jeb Bush and the Cabinet ordered the county to slow growth and write new rules for environmental protection by July 2002. Commissioners appointed two committees to handle the task and also have hired a Miami town planning firm to write a Collier County Community Character plan to address transportation and open space concerns.
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Farmers facing cuts in Lake O water supplies
South Florida's water squeeze got tighter Thursday. As expected, the South Florida Water Management District said it plans to pursue cuts in farmers' supplies to stem the drying of Lake Okeechobee amid a regionwide drought. The district's board also added all or part of five Southwest Florida counties to the water warning it issued in September for South Florida. ... The warning asks residents and local governments to conserve but doesn't carry mandatory cuts on lawn watering or car washing. The rest of the state has been gripped for nearly three years by a drought that has shriveled lakes and rivers while spawning sinkholes and wildfires.
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Collier schools: Florida Panther Refuge poster contest seeks 'Reason for
Hope'
...the contest, which focused on global and local endangered species. Five winners from each grade at each school were selected. Their posters will be on display 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today at The Conservancy of Southwest Florida. Of the 250 posters on display, five finalists will be chosen this weekend.The five top winners from each school, one guest and their art teacher will receive an invitation to the "Reason for Hope" celebration on Feb. 24. The celebration will include a speech by Goodall. For the hours of display on Saturday, call Bonnie Bibas at 948-4610 or Ricky Peres at 590-7028.
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09-Nov-00
Eco-tour operators form group
In trying to protect their own turf, eco-tour operators in Southwest Florida are doing what wildlife does, seeking safety in numbers. They have formed the Society for Ethical Ecotourism in Southwest Florida (SEE SWFL) to set standards, speak with one voice and set up an accreditation program. ... A bad nature guide can have a lasting, detrimental impact on the single resource all eco-tour operators share — the environment. With eco-tourism ranked as the fastest growing segment of the tourism industry, the potential for damage to that resource grows each year. Some studies show that more than half of Florida’s 47 million visitors each year take part in such activities.
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Marco City Council
Charter amendment defeat may block donation to plover fight: Marco Island - ... On Monday, the council voted unanimously to donate $30,000 toward a private effort to fight the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's plan to designate 6.5 miles of Marco's beaches as critical habitat for the piping plover, a small bird named for its high-pitched, squeaky voice. The plover, which spends winter seasons along Marco's beaches, is on the list of animals protected under the Endangered Species Act. ... But one day after the council's decision, Marco Island voters again rejected an effort to amend the city's charter, including a proposal to eliminate a spending cap. That unexpected result leaves a host of city projects in jeopardy, including the plover grant.
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07-Nov-00Editorial: Water management
…regional water managers are planning seasonal restrictions before a supply-and-demand crisis hits in the impending dry yet busy winter. … Hopefully, too, those restrictions will take into account new development and not merely waggle a finger at existing homes and businesses to be good neighbors. … Another prime topic: how to make sure growth goes easy on drinking water supplies in another way, in the actual site preparation stage, as planners overlooked with Calusa Bay's manmade lakes next to City of Naples wellfields. Truly smart growth looks at the big picture. Look where we are approving project after project for three years without adding a single new road. And water is more important.
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At Stake in Congress
Congress Last week achieved a caricature of itself. For two years the Republican leadership has been struggling to maintain the appearance of serious legislative activity while mainly blocking serious legislation and marking time until Election Day. …House Republicans were afraid to recess, lest they be tarred with the do-nothing label. They therefore stayed in session--and did nothing. … In fairness, they did give their final blessing to one bill before departing Friday--an overflowing election-year public works bill authorizing assorted water projects, including, laudably, a major effort to reverse past harm and help restore the Everglades. They pass a water projects bill almost every election year.
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David Brower Dies
David Brower, 88, a mountaineer whose muscular speech and leadership style had an impact on environmental legislation for the last half-century as he was executive director of the Sierra Club and founder of Friends of the Earth and the Earth Island Institute, died Nov. 5 of bladder cancer at his home in Berkeley, Calif. … He told The Washington Post in 1997 that criticism of his leadership style did not faze him. "Taking risks has been my trouble in the environmental movement," he said of a cause he believed to have become more bureaucratic. "I think for the most part they are indentured, as the universities are, as the media are, to the principal funders and directors."
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Clearwater questioned on potable water use
When Clearwater ran into problems with its reclaimed water system recently, the city dumped millions of gallons of drinking water into a huge tank. And all of this occurred as the Tampa Bay area struggled with one of the worst droughts in its history .... ``There was the potential to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars of
landscaping,'' said Kevin Becotte, public utilities director for the city. ``You have to balance the customers' needs with the regulatory requirements you have to meet. I think it was the right decision at the time.'' The move, however, might have placed Clearwater in violation of its water use permits, said Michael Molligan, spokesman for the Southwest Florida Water Management District.
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Early onset of dry season may prompt warning
Zero. Zip. Zilch. None. That's about how much rain Lee County has had in the last 33 days. Warnings have already been issued for the Lake Okeechobee area, the Keys and Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties. Mandatory restrictions could follow as early as December, three months earlier than usual. Copyright © 2000 Fort Meyers News Press All rights reserved.
Ultralight, cranes near winter home
A dozen sandhill cranes following an ultralight aircraft to Florida have nearly reached their warm, winter destination. The flock is resting in Gilchrist County in North Florida and is expected this week to reach the coastal wildlife refuge where they will spend the winter. The young sandhill cranes are in an experimental migration program. It is hoped the same technique could be used to draw endangered whooping cranes to warmer climates where they would have a better chance of survival. ... The birds travel for no more than about two hours a day, covering 70 miles or so, in the migration that began in Wisconsin in early October.
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Storm ravages nests of sea turtles
Hurricane Gordon dealt a soggy blow to sea turtle nests in Lee County this year. Sea turtles dug more than 800 nests on county beaches during the nesting season, which began May 1 and ended last week, but Gordon washed out at least 95. The average nest holds about 100 eggs, so that's 9,500 sea turtles that never got to the Gulf of Mexico.
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Poll: Readers to vote against high-speed train
Fifty-nine percent of the 140 readers who called Sunday responding to The News-Press reader question said they will be voting against Constitutional Amendment No. 1 Tuesday calling for a high-speed rail in Florida.
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Canker report finally released
Managers of the state's controversial canker eradication program, responding to a court order, finally released a vital scientific study Monday night that formed the basis for the sweeping expansion of the program earlier this year. After business hours Monday, a three-inch stack of data from the study was delivered to the coalition of Broward governments that is suing to halt the eradication program, according to representatives of both sides. The release was ordered by Broward Circuit Judge J. Leonard Fleet. The data was not available for review, but The Herald obtained a copy of a manuscript based on the study. The 15-page manuscript is being considered for publication by a scientific journal called Phytopathology. Largely a narrative account of the canker epidemic and the state's response, the manuscript includes supporting data that appears sparse and selective. Only one table of statistics and three other graphics are included. Though the study was conducted between November 1997 and April 1999, the manuscript was written after March 22, 2000, the date of a visit by U.S. Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman, which is mentioned in the text.
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Port proposal sounds ecological alarm
The Port of Miami-Dade wants to widen and deepen virtually all of its major channels and basins -- through coral, sponges and sea fans offshore and next to some of the most sensitive sea grass beds in Biscayne Bay. The six proposed projects trouble regulators and environmental activists -- particularly because the port's last dip into dredging was an environmental disaster, illegally chewing up a massive sea grass meadow in prime manatee habitat. More than 18 months after that project was halted, the port still has not agreed to a restoration and compensation program. ``We're very concerned,'' said Dick Townsend, conservation chairman for the Tropical Audubon Society. ``Damage to sea grass is something that's rarely well controlled.''
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Gulf's untapped gold mine of fuel
Retrieving it fraught with obstacles
Deep down, the Gulf of Mexico is rich. But it's also rich in danger. To their surprise, scientists who just spent two weeks of deep exploration between Galveston, Texas, and Key West, aboard the submarine Alvin encountered firsthand an underwater storm as powerful as a hurricane. Those types of storms could make it more difficult to exploit their most important finding: that the Gulf is truly a gold mine for fuel -- oil, gas, and a third fuel form that dwarfs the other two. It's trapped frozen methane sitting on the bottom of the Gulf floor. All are more abundant and closer to the surface than experts had believed.
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06-Nov-00
DEP's plan upsets groups
DEP officials recently put out a draft rule for drawing up the next version of the polluted-waters list that would set a new standard for picking which waterways belong on the list, and it has drawn sharp criticism from 52 environmental groups and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. ... "The state's definition says that the presence of ... contaminants ... in quantities or levels which are not or may not be potentially harmful or injurious to human health or welfare, animal or plant life or property is not pollution," EPA officials wrote to the DEP. "The definition also says that pollution does not exist if it is authorized by applicable law." But federal law says any substance that taints clean water is a pollutant, regardless of whether it has been authorized or if it is being dumped in by the barrelfull.
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Water district considers warning of water shortage
Many of the seasonal residents haven't even arrived yet, but water management officials are already contemplating turning off the tap. Last season, the South Florida Water Management District imposed water use restrictions in May, nearly the end of the 1999-2000 season. This season, a dry October is forcing officials at the district to start gearing up for restrictions as early as next week.
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Organizers hope 'smart growth'becomes more than a buzzword
They call it a symposium, but its organizers say they hope Thursday's half-day session on so-called smart growth will be just the beginning. Smart growth is the
latest greatest thing on the lips of everybody from urban planners to environmental advocates as a workable solution to sprawl and traffic
congestion.
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Ballot efforts increasing to limit urban sprawl
Draw a circle around Tampa, say, two miles from downtown. Now, imagine no new sprawl allowed outside that border
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It's tree vs. developer in struggle for growth
If the earth laughs in flowers, as Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, then it breathes in
trees.
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Cruise industry woos government, battles threats
...The cruise industry donated $262,925 to state candidates and political parties this year, according to state campaign finance records analyzed by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. ...a big increase from the $49,900 the industry contributed in 1998. .. "They want to be a player now," state Sen. Howard Forman, D-Pembroke Pines, vice chairman of the Natural Resources Committee, told the newspaper, which is based in Fort Lauderdale. "They want to do what Big Sugar and Big Tobacco do." The Republican Party of Florida took in the largest amount, $154,000. The Florida Democratic Party took in $41,300.
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Crocodile gets royal treatment for now
Burger King will move its world headquarters from the lush campus beside South Biscayne Bay to a location just across State Road 836 from Miami International Airport in a couple of years, and employees already know what they're going to miss most: Their crocodile. ... ``We named him Gilligan,'' says fan club leader Patty Gehring, ``because he just sits there on his little deserted island in the lagoon. ``We wave to him, talk to him. At first he didn't want anything to do with us. Now he's accustomed to people running around the path, and he doesn't run away anymore. He just sits there and does his own thing, and we enjoy his presence.
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Editorial: Mack leaves a legacy for all public servants to emulate
The eve of general election 2000 is an ideal time to recognize Connie Mack,
is wrapping up 18 years of service in Congress. Floridians in general will
miss him. Politicians in particular would do well to make him their role
model. The lanky 60-year-old earns a niche in history for doing what he said
he would do - go from Cape Coral to Washington and work for the people. His
head was not turned by glamor or power. He held onto his laptop.
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Turtle watchers happy with hatch numbers
…Researchers are thrilled that, on average, about half the eggs laid survived wave action and animal raids and resulted in turtles emerging from their nests. Ecological Associates in Jensen Beach surveyed 16.4 miles of beach in Martin and St. Lucie counties. The statistics do not include how many survive their dash to the surf. Watchers counted 477 green turtle nests in 2000, the highest ever recorded and more than half again the 296 recorded in 1998. Watchers counted only 42 green turtle nests in 1999, but researchers say green turtles nest only every other year. Loggerhead and leatherback figures were about the same from 1999 to 2000.
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05-Nov-00
Letter to the editor
After attending several public meetings that the Florida Department of Environmental Protection is conducting to get public input on its "total maximum daily load" of phosphorus to be allowed into Lake Okeechobee, I'm appalled at the stretched-out schedule the cleanup seems to be following. So here's a true-or-false test on the Lake Okeechobee cleanup project: ...[7 questions] If you answered "true" to any of the above, we will pray for you. Carroll Head, president, Friends of Lake Okeechobee
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Is There Still Time to Save Our Great Lake Okeechobee?
"Lake Okeechobee is being sacrificed for the benefit of a relatively small number of powerful people," said Carroll Head, 62, of Okeechobee, and president of the Friends of Lake Okeechobee, Inc., which came into being March, 1999. "Lake
Okeechobee can overcome anything except the silence of its friends." Further information about Friends of Lake Okeechobee, Inc., may be obtained by contacting Carroll Head, 2252 S. W. 22nd Circle, Okeechobee, FL 34974.
The e-mail address is Chead@ircc.net
(Florida Sportsman Magazine, 6/00)
Martin seeks ideas for greenway plan
Martin County mom Stacy Ranieri can list a dozen reasons why she's pleased the county has begun drafting a plan for a network of greenways -- and the first images that come to mind are usually of her children. The county's growth management department recently began working on a "Conceptual Greenways Master Plan," which is meant to find natural connections between local parks, conservation areas and town centers. The county is looking for interested people, such as Ranieri, to serve on a new committee to review the plan and come up with potential greenway ideas. The applications, which are available at the county's administrative center, are due Nov. 13.
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Jupiter bracing for development boom
A surge of new development is expected to wash over the town in the next year, eclipsing even the 3,000 housing units approved during the past six years, town officials say. The construction, fed by a booming economy and sale of large tracts by the MacArthur Foundation in 1998... Town planners estimate more than 3,500 housing units could come before the town council for approval next year or shortly after, as the last large vacant parcels are prepared for development.
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Which one can really save Florida?
... Last week, Ralph Nader, who will be on the ballot with Winona LaDuke representing the Green Party, sent a letter to what he called ``concerned environmental voters.'' ... Nader, of course, is the great environmentalist. ... Having dismissed Bush as an environmental goon, he moved on to Al Gore. It was a devastating attack... outlining a laundry list of what Nader sees as failed environmental policies, including his stand on the Everglades. ... Gore has not opposed a proposed commercial airport on the site of the former Homestead Air Force Base, despite the protest of local people working for conservation and his
own EPA. The ones who will preserve this state - if it is going to be preserved - will be you. ... Because after next week, these guys are going to be a little harder to find.
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Nader fires up Miami crowd, assails rivals Bush and Gore
... Nader, speaking Saturday in Miami to about 300 enthusiastic supporters, shook the house as he tapped into the raw opposition against the canker eradication program. He also criticized a proposal to convert the Homestead Air Reserve Base into a commercial airport and bashed Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore for not taking a stand on the issue. ... Gore's campaign aides say he's waiting for an environmental impact statement by the Air force. ...Nader also drew loud applause for...On public transit: ``Have you ever seen a new car advertised on TV in congested traffic?''
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Water bill clings to life
The tenacious Florida Keys Water Quality Improvement Act is clinging to life after being attached last week to a "must-pass" Health and Human Services Appropriations bill that is up for approval when Congress returns Nov. 14. The act would bring $100 million - 65 percent of it from federal funds - to Monroe County to help implement a master wastewater plan and other water-quality projects. Although passed by the House three times, the act has not made it past the Senate, despite being tagged on to the hugely popular Everglades Restoration Act. ...it was down-sized by slicing off $400 million in several "add-on" projects,
including the Keys' act.
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Opinion: Gore's better for the environment
With two days left in the presidential campaign, Florida voters have one burning question: Are they gone yet? The curse of living in a ``swing state'' is that the candidates and their running mates won't go away. We're sick of them, they're sick of us. And in the end, we're left with the same uninspiring impressions of
George W. Bush and Al Gore -- the guy who stumbles, and the guy who stultifies. Terrific. … To protect all this, we're asked to trust a man who trusts the polluters. That's how we do it in Texas, he says. A splendid reason to send him home.
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04-Nov-00
Everglades bill passes
Friday after the 312-2 vote on the Everglades bill, one of the largest environmental restoration projects ever, lawmakers quickly agreed to recess and streamed for the exits. The Everglades bill gave the majority party a chance to leave on a high note, presenting a legislative gift to the election battleground state of Florida. ``Some have said Republicans can't work with Democrats to produce good policy,'' said Rep. Clay Shaw, R-Fort Lauderdale, the chief sponsor of the bill, who returns home to a competitive re-election race. The joint effort shows ``we can do good things for our country and for our entire globe.'' The Republican leadership is not expected to send the bill to the White House until after the election, ensuring that President Clinton will not be able to hold an election- eve signing ceremony.
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Environmentalists, Politicians Cheer Everglades Cleanup Bill
Environmentalists and politicians throughout the state cheered the final passage Friday of a bill that will attempt to restore the Everglades natural water flow.
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House OKs Everglades restoration
Clinton may sign at national park:
The House gave final approval and sent to President Clinton on Friday legislation... Clinton administration officials were working with congressional leaders Friday to set up a bill signing at Everglades National Park. ... The plan calls for about 66 different construction projects including a controversial and unproven plan to store 1 billion gallons of fresh water deep underground. “This is nothing but a water supply plan for the continued growth of South Florida,” said Juanita Greene, conservation chairman for Friends of the Everglades. The state of Florida and the federal government will share the costs of the restoration. Groundbreaking on the first project probably won’t occur until 2004.
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Everglades repair bill is passed
The first phase...won final passage in the House Friday as lawmakers praised their rare, bipartisan agreement before heading home to political campaigns. ...
Lawmakers were all smiles at a press conference held after the vote. Some first-time attendees to Everglades events included Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., and "Freddy," a staffer dressed up as an alligator. ... Although some critics contend the Everglades plan relies too heavily on the same sort of manmade water control structures that ruined the "River of Grass" in the first place, Interior Secretary Babbitt defended that approach as the only way to go. "The great irony of Everglades restoration is that the Corps of Engineers presided over its dismantling. They pushed Humpty Dumpty off the wall," he said. "Now they're the only ones who can put him back together. We cannot go back to a totally natural system."
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Everglades restoration bill
House puts final stamp on project
... By passing the measure, 312-2, House Republicans and Democrats set aside their partisan rancor for two hours Friday morning and made the Everglades bill their final vote before leaving town to campaign for the Nov. 7 elections. ... Environmentalists said the plan is so ambitious and some of the techniques so experimental that it must be closely monitored. ... Babbitt agreed, saying: "We got a long ways to go. It's going to be a long slog over the next 30 years." Copyright © 2000 Naples News All rights reserved.
Everglades: Public interest triumphs over bipartisan politics
"It feels futile when you go to D.C., but it really takes everybody working together
to get something done in Washington," said Ralf Brookes, 37, an environmental attorney who works in Lee County and lives along the Caloosahatchee River. Brookes said he's been interested in Everglades issues since he wrote his college thesis on legal issues surrounding pollution cleanup in Lake Okeechobee. ... Gulf Citrus Growers Association Director Ron Hamel lauded the House vote. "It's very positive news for the Everglades restoration effort and water users, including agriculture," he said.
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Former CEO of National Wildlife Federation: The environment is important to
us all: Almost at the very moment the U.S. House was passing a $7.8 billion bill to fund Everglades restoration on Friday afternoon, a renowned environmentalist spoke before a group of about 50 people in Naples. Jay D. Hair, the former president and CEO of the National Wildlife Federation, cataloged the state of global environment, and some of his remarks pertained to Naples' own back yard. "It would be a crime if we lost the Everglades on our watch," he said. Hair spoke at the Immokalee Foundation's Legacy Symposia presented by Eckerd College. The lecture series, each of which builds on the last and is intended to focus on a different aspect of life at the turn of the millennium.
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Glades Get New Life: Congress approves $7.8 billion renewal plan:
The House passed the final version of a water projects bill including the Everglades plan on a vote of 312-2 in a rare demonstration of bipartisanship hours before members recessed until Nov. 14, permitting last-minute campaigning. ... President Clinton plans to sign the bill, possibly at a ceremony in Florida after the election... Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt warned that leaders will have to be vigilant to protect the plan's allocation of 80 percent of all water recovered for environmental restoration, not for development. ... The only two votes against the bill came from Reps. Helen Chenoweth-Hage of Idaho and Mark Sanford of South Carolina, both Republicans, who objected to the way the House handled the legislation.
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Everglades restoration bill sails through House
In a rare display of sugary-sweet bipartisanship, the House on Friday voted overwhelmingly for a landmark Everglades restoration plan that will cost $7.8 billion and take 36 years to complete. ... "This is of course a tribute to the people of Florida," said Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt. "It's an unusual situation. We've got a close election and both parties know that Republicans and Democrats in Florida want this and are ready to place blame if it ails." President Clinton is expected to sign the bill, although he will not be getting it before Tuesday's election.
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House passes $7.8 billion Everglades bill
After weeks of debate, a $7.8 billion project to restore the Everglades sailed through the House on Friday and will be sent to President Clinton for his signature. The bill containing the Everglades plan, the Water Resources Development Act, was approved 312-2. The only dissenters were Reps. Helen
Chenoweth-Hage, R-Idaho, and Marshall Sanford Jr., R-S.C. ... Now, lawmakers and environmentalists will be waiting eagerly for Clinton's signature, expected next week.
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U.S. Sugar cuts tours, cites price for sugar
...several thousand people a year take tours through the cane fields and processing plants of South Florida's sugar industry. ...cost $20 a person, but that didn't cover all the expenses... "We won't be having any tours until the price of sugar rebounds," U.S. Sugar spokeswoman Judith Sanchez said. ... The tours at both Florida Crystals and U.S. Sugar began in 1996 when the penny-a-pound sugar tax that would have paid for an Everglades cleanup effort was being debated. The proposed tax was defeated that year. ... Florida Crystals picked up the entire cost when the trips began in 1996, but the charge is now $17 a person. "We would have cut it out, but the tour company said people would be willing to pay,"...when the company footed the complete bill, the cost was probably more than $200,000.
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House Approves Plan to Restore Everglades
In a rare moment of solidarity, the House voted for a $7.8 billion plan intended to restore the Florida Everglades, a project supporters call the largest environmental renewal effort ever.
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Treasure Coast to reap benefits of 'Glades bill
As environmentalists cheered the final, long-awaited passage of the massive Everglades Restor-ation Bill, U.S. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt said a proposed link between Lake Okeechobee and irrigation canals in St. Lucie County is very much in keeping with the intent of the legislation. ... "Now, we will have to fight for appropriations every year, that’s true, but the real challenge, the real necessity, is for us to stay alert and watch what the agencies meaning the Army Corps and the state partners and so on do down the road. Eighty percent of the water is supposed to be dedicated to environmental restoration. My message to residents of Martin and St. Lucie County, and to all of Florida, is hold them to that. "They are going to try to whittle away at that commitment," Babbitt said. [Telephone interview]
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Water bill still alive in Congress
A federal bill intended to fund water-quality projects in the Florida Keys came back to life Friday. The Florida Keys Water Quality Improvement Act apparently will be attached to an appropriations bill slated to be voted on when Congress returns for a special post-election session on Nov. 14. The Keys bill appeared to be dead in the water earlier this week.
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03-Nov-00
House Set to Vote on Everglades Restoration Bill
A huge restoration project for Florida's Everglades that figures to be the last major piece of legislation passed by Congress before Election Day is also a way for House Republicans to blunt Democratic claims of a do-nothing Congress. … Votes were scheduled Friday to ensure the attendance of GOP Rep. E. Clay Shaw of Florida, who faces a tough re-election battle and will have a powerful new tool for the final weekend of the campaign. The vote also gives Republicans a major environmental issue to promote in a hotly contested state in the presidential campaign.
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House Votes for Program to Revamp Everglades
House leaders allowed a touch of politics to enter an issue of wide bipartisan support today when lawmakers put the finishing touches on an Everglades-restoration project before getting ready to flee the capital. ... Today's vote was devoid of suspense, since it was merely to approve a conference report that tidied up relatively minor differences between the Senate and House versions. The Senate ratified the conference report earlier this week.
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House OKs Everglades, Starts Recess
The House left for the campaign trail Friday after laying aside partisan animosity
for a moment and passing an Everglades restoration bill that both sides hailed as a testimony to what can be achieved when they work together.
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01-Nov-00
01-Nov-00
Everglades bill nears final OK
Landmark legislation authorizing a $1.4 billion restoration of the Everglades is one step from President Clinton’s desk. The restoration program had been held up because of political wrangling over other water projects in the bill, but passed the Senate on Tuesday after House and Senate conferees reached an agreement on differences. It is expected to win final passage today in the House. ... Rep. Porter Goss, R-Sanibel, said Floridians shouldn’t get "too optimistic" about the bill just yet — there are still some sweetener bills attached to it that haven’t yet met consensus in the House. "I think we’ve cleared a lot of the baggage out of the way, but we’ve still got some work to do on it," he said. "It’s a good bill and it’ll get passed."
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The Sea Shepard
Paul Watson is a militant environmentalist who sails the world, never shying from confrontation in defense of endangered animals and habitats. He will be speaking to the Rod and Reel Club in Miami Beach and Floridians for a Sustainable Population in Miami and Fort Lauderdale. He will give a free public lecture at the Main Library, 100 S. Andrews Ave., Fort Lauderdale, at 7 p.m. Wednesday. Oct. 29 through Nov. 4 as Florida Overpopulation Awareness Week.
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Cool breezes herald end of hurricane season
Hurricane season is basically over for South Florida. Although the season officially continues through the end of November, we're more likely to see cool crisp mornings instead of monster storms, officials said Tuesday. "We're definitely into the dry season," said meteorologist Kim Brabander of the National Weather Service in Miami. Thanks to a weak cold front, the next 10 days should see low temperatures in the low to mid 60s, and highs about 80, he said. After that, expect moderate temperatures, not scorching heat. As for the summer pattern of afternoon thunderstorms -- it's over until next spring, he said. But that's not to say another tropical storm won't form and potentially drench the region.
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Editorial
Vote for $400 million bond issue
Voters have an opportunity Tuesday to improve the quality of life in Broward County, for themselves and future generations, by approving a $400 million bond issue for park improvements and land acquisition.
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Washington in Brief:
Everglades Bill: On Course to Passage:
A bill to rescue the Florida Everglades was put on course for final approval by Congress after House and Senate negotiators agreed to drop dozens of costly water projects that had drawn protests from the Senate and threatened to derail the legislation. The measure...was approved by the Senate yesterday. House approval is anticipated as early as today, according to congressional aides. ...many of the non-Everglades projects added by the House, said initiatives costing more than $600 million were stripped from the measure.
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Drowned by drought
Lakes levels are low, and watering restrictions remain in effect as the dry season settles in.
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Area drought forecast despite October rains
Get ready for a long, dry winter. Despite a rainier than usual October, South Florida appears to be heading for its first water shortage in nine years -- possibly the worst in modern memory. For residents, that means the likelihood of strict limits on lawn watering and car washing, with scofflaws facing possible jail terms and $500 fines.
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Press Releases/News media
George W. Bush presidential campaign website
Al Gore presidential campaign website• League of Conservation Voters
• Cheney Pick Means Double Trouble for the Environment
• George W. Bush Environmental Updates
• Al Gore Environmental Updates
• Alan Keyes Environmental Updates
Initiatives
Led by a $400 million bond referendum in Broward County, which passed by a
73.59% to 26.41% margin, voter approval of environmental land purchase proposals were generally given strong support around the state.
Seminole County Voters approved a $25 million trails, greenways, and land
purchase proposal by 58%.
Volusia County Voters approved twin referenda, both on the same ballot,
raising $80 million each for environmental land purchases and trails plus
other recreation projects. The Land purchase bond issue called "Volusia
Forever" passed by 61.3 percent. The Trails & Recreation proposal, called
"ECHO" passed by 57.5 percent. Considering Volusia's population size, the $
160 million provided by these two proposals may be the largest per-capita
investment of this kind in the state.
Alachua County approved a $29 million land acquisition program by a near 70%
vote of the electorate.
There may be more...if you know of another local land purchase or "Trails &
Greenways" vote, please post the results!
Two Bushes in the Everglades
Mother Jones
July / August 2000
George W. Bush has rarely encountered a public problem that the private sector, in his view, cannot solve. Now the Republican presidential hopeful
wants to unleash market forces on the Everglades. During a campaign swing
through Florida in March, Bush made clear he believes the state should
involve private enterprise in the effort to save the imperiled ecosystem.
One of Bush's biggest campaign contributors couldn't agree more. Azurix, a
Houston-based company formed b the energy giant Enron, has offered to pump
millions of dollars of its own money into building reservoirs and storage
wells designed to restore the Everglades. In return, the company wants
permission to sell the water that supplies 6 million residents of South
Florida.
http://www.motherjones.com//mother_jones/JA00/outfrontja00.html#twobushes
Litigation
Legislation
Senate action:
9/26/00 - Glades restoration project approved
9/24/00 - Canady takings bill rejected
• Congress to Prepare Everglades Restoration Bill
Copyright © 2000 Everglades Conservation Network All rights reserved. Posted 01-Jun-00H.R. 2372, Rep. Canady's [R-FL] "Private Property Rights Implementation Act" (TAKINGS BILL) will be MARKED-UP and VOTED on by the Full HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE on WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8 and is likely to come to the Floor of the full House of Representatives the following week.
• Search Thomas
• Subcommittee on Water Resources & Environment
01-Mar-00
• Hearings & Testimony: Restoration of the Everglades and South Florida Ecosystem
Regulations
Case Law
Law Review Articles
Reports
South Florida Focus: Putting FLORIDA FIRST
Impact Magazine
Vol. 15, No. 3/ Spring 2000 (36 pages)
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Perspective
A message from the VP for Agriculture & Natural Resources
Urban Focus
The Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center helps solve environmental
problems and enhances the quality of life in South Florida.
Everglades Agricultural Area
Best management practices help farmers protect environmentally sensitive
areas.
Education at Your Doorstep
With new distance education technologies, UF's College of Agricultural and
Life Sciences offers classes statewide.
Southernmost Solutions
Located in Homestead, the Tropical Research and Education Center is the only
university facility of its kind in the continental United States.
A Salty Problem
Algae blooms provide a sign that something's amiss with fragile Florida Bay.
Putting down roots
4-H project turns barren land into a garden.
Affordable Housing
Dreams come true in Collier County through a collaboration of UF/IFAS
extension, banks and county government.
Eat better, live better
A Hialeah nutrition education program helps the Hispanic population make the
most of limited resources.
UF/IFAS Updates
Florida Earth Project
Students and professionals can learn about Florida's environmental issues.
Ask the master
Florida ecotourism gets help from Master Naturalists.
Silicon success
New research indicates this element controls diseases and boosts crop
yields.
UF/IFAS Resources
Research
01-Nov--00
Missing
Pieces in Ecosystem Restoration: The Case of the Florida Everglades
Economic Systems Research, VoL 12, No. 3, 2000
RICHARD WEISSKOFF
(Received January 1999; revised November 1999)
ABSTRACT The largest ecosystem restoration in the world-a $7.8
billion rescue package-is now beginning in the Florida Everglades. This
paper examines both the economic impact of the restoration itself and
those pieces that are 'missing' from the official project analysis;
namely, increased tourism, urban construction, in-migration, and changing
agricultural patterns. These pieces comprise a variety of scenarios that
are tested for a 45 year planning period with an augmented
input-output model derived from a regional SAM. The new output and
employment generated by the 'missing pieces', which are small
relative to the vast economic base of the region, do represent a
considerable increase over the annual growth, especially by the
year 2045. We conclude with a discussion of ways in which a growing
regional economy might be reconciled with ecosystem restoration.
Conferences,
Hearings
07-Dec-00
"Improving the scientific basis for making decisions on environmental
issues"
December 7- 8, 2000
National Conference on Science, Policy and the Environment
National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC
Participate in person or on the web. Help Recommend Science for the
Environment Improvements for the next President (whomever he is): The National Council for Science and the
Environment (Formerly the Committee for the National Institute for the Environment)
Although the next President of the U.S. is still to be determined, you can help determine his agenda for improving the scientific basis for
environmental decisionmaking. Spaces are still available for the National Conference on Science, Policy
and the Environment:
http://www.cnie.org/ncseconference
If you are unable to attend, you can participate online:
http://mercury.rice.edu/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi?action=intro
in 14 discussion sessions on key topics in science and the environment. Each
session is charged with generating a brief set of recommendations for improving the scientific basis for decision making. Recommendations can be
addressed toward the government as a whole or its specific agencies. They will be part of a report that will be presented to the transition teams for
the next President and to Congress. Here's your opportunity to shape the "science for the environment" agenda of the next Administration and
Congress.
The 14 Discussion Sessions
~ Biodiversity & Ecosystem Health
~ Environmental Implications of Biotechnology
~ Environmental Indicators
~ Federal Government Structure
~ Global Environmental Change
~ Higher Education
~ Human Health & Environment
~ Information Systems
~ Invasive Species
~ Pollution Prevention/Waste Management
~ Population/Demographics
~ Public Education
~ Sustainable Communities
~ Sustainable Resource Management
22-Mar-01
All Eyes on Florida: Revitalizing, Restoring and Revisiting
The seventh annual public interest environmental conference
University Conference Center Doubletree
Gainesville, FL
March 22-24, 2001
This student-run conference brings together diverse interests to take part
in panels discussing a multitude of environmental issues. This form of
interaction allows the parties to develop understanding and even cooperation
on difficult environmental conflicts that may otherwise be impossible.
The University of Florida College of Law's Environmental and Land Use Law
Society in cooperation with the Florida Bar
05-Sep-01
Wetlands and Remediation: The Second International Conference
Background: In November, 1999, Battelle Memorial Institute, a
not-for-profit research organization based in Columbus, Ohio, sponsored
and organized a wetlands and remediation conference in Salt Lake City,
Utah, that brought together more than 300 wetlands and remediation
experts to discuss common issues related to cleaning up contaminated
wetlands and using wetlands (both natural and constructed) for treating
contaminated ground-, surface-, and wastewater. Based on the success of
that meeting, Battelle is pleased to announce that Wetlands and
Remediation: The Second International Conference will be held September
5-6, 2001, at the Sheraton Burlington Hotel and Conference Center in
Burlington, Vermont.
Organization: Karl Nehring of Battelle (614/424-6510, nehringk@battelle.org), Conference Chairman, will be responsible for
coordinating the development of the technical program. Carol Young (614/424-7604,
youngc@battelle.org) will be the Conference Coordinator, responsible for scheduling, correspondence, and issues involving
abstract and manuscript submittal and preparation. The Conference Group (800/783-6338,
conferencegroup@compuserve.com) of Columbus, Ohio, is
handling the meeting logistics.
Format: After an opening plenary session, there will be multiple platform sessions (two or three concurrent tracks), and a poster session
on Wednesday evening. Speakers at the Plenary Session will include Dr. Jean-Paul Schwitzguebel of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Lausanne, Dr. Barry Warner of the University of Waterloo (current vice president of the Society of Wetland Scientists) and Dr. John Pardue of
Louisiana State University.
Sponsorship: Battelle is the sponsor and organizer, and we are hoping to add co-sponsors for the 2001 conference. Parsons Engineering
Science, Morrison Knudsen Corporation, the U.S. DoD Environmental Security Technical Certification Program/Strategic Environmental
Research and Development Program, and the U.S. Naval Facilities Engineering Command were co-sponsors of the 1999 Conference.
Organizations interested in co-sponsoring the 2001 Conference should contact The Conference Group.
Participating Organizations: Organizations committed to helping with publicity for the conference and encouraging participation should
contact The Conference Group at 800/783-6338. Participating organizations for the 1999 meeting included The Center for Wetlands and
Riparian Design (University of Utah), Environmental Business Journal, the USDA NRCS Wetlands Science Institute, the University of Florida
Center for Wetlands, The Michigan State University Institute of Water
Research, the Olentangy River Wetland Research Park (The Ohio State University), The Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences/Coastal
Ecology Institute (Louisiana State University), The U.S. Army Construction Engineering Laboratory, the Utah Water Research Laboratory
(Utah State University), the Tennessee Valley Authority, and the New York State Wetlands Forum.
Exhibitors: Companies or organizations interested in having an exhibit booth at the conference should contact The Conference Group at
800/783-6338.
Schedule: The Call for Abstracts will be mailed in November 2000; the deadline for submitting abstracts will be March 5, 2001. Once the
program has been finalized and accepted presenters have been sent acceptance letters, a preliminary program will be mailed.
Proceedings: A proceedings volume will be prepared and then published by Battelle Press and mailed to registrants shortly after the
conference. Proceedings papers will be optional but strongly encouraged from all presenters, both platform and poster. Authors wishing to have
their papers appear in the proceedings will be requested to provide camera-ready copies of their papers by July 13.
Registration: Because registration fees are by far the major source of funding for the conference and a significant percentage of registrants
will make presentations, all presenting authors and session chairs are expected to register and pay the standard fees.
Potential topics for this conference include:
- Natural Attenuation in Wetlands
- Biological and Ecological Considerations
- Risk-Based Wetlands Remediation
- Regulatory Trends
- Economic Factors in Wetlands Remediation and Restoration
- Wetlands Hydrology and Morphology
- Wetlands Microbial Ecology
- Phytoremediation and Macrophytes in Wetlands
- Wetlands for the Remediation and Treatment of Wastewater
- Wetlands Treatment of Contaminated Sediments
- GIS and Remediation
- Innovative Technologies for Wetlands Investigations
- Non-point Source Pollution and Agricultural Runoff
- Redox Processes in Wetlands
- Contaminant Fate and Environmentally Acceptable Endpoints
- Wetlands Design and Construction
- Creating Wetlands using Dredge Spoils
- Wetlands Restoration and Mitigation
- Explosives and Wetlands
- Hydrocarbon-Contaminated Wetlands
- Mine Waste Considerations
- Metals and Inorganics in Wetlands
- Perchlorate-Contaminated Wetlands
- Groundwater/Surface Water Interfaces
• UNEP/GPA News ForumUnited Nations Environment Programme
A News and Information Service of the Global Programme of Action (GPA) for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities
Education site •
League
of Conservation voters, Presidential profiles
Only one in three adult Americans has a passing understanding of our
most pressing environmental issues. National
Environmental Education and Training Foundation
Political analysis of Presidential candidates' environmental
platform
• Everglades
Restoration Plan
Comprehensive site dedicated to educating the public about the
restoration plan
The controversy surrounding dihydrogen monoxide has never been more widely debated, and the goal of this site is to provide an unbiased data clearinghouse and a forum for public discussion. The success of this site depends on you, the citizen concerned about Dihydrogen Monoxide. We welcome your comments and suggestions.
http://www.dhmo.org/
• Living on Earth, 10/26/00
http://www.loe.org/thisweek/highlight.htm#1
2000 Presidential Profiles
[Sen. Smith]--We can only achieve environmental progress through working together in bipartisan action. ...in my committee on the Environment and Public Works, I worked in a bipartisan fashion with the Democrats to craft an Everglades bill. ... Political opponents will always try to paint a negative picture, but the bottom line is simple: the environment in Texas, under the leadership of George W. Bush, is cleaner and healthier than it• League of Conservation Voters
• George W. Bush Environmental Updates
• Al Gore Environmental Updates
• Cheney Pick Means Double Trouble for the Environment
• Vote Gore Commentary by Carl Pope, Sierra Club and Vote
Bush Commentary by Senator Bob Smith
was the day he took office.
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