What Ever Happened To The Deal To Save The Everglades?

National Public Radio: South of Florida's Lake Okeechobee, hundreds of thousands of acres of sugar cane thrive in the heart of one of the world's largest wetlands. The Everglades stretches from the tip of the peninsula to central Florida, north of Lake Okeechobee. "The Everglades actually begins at Shingle Creek, outside of Orlando," says Jonathan Ullman of the Sierra Club. That's nearly 200 miles north of the agricultural land that Ullman and other environmentalists say is crucial to state and federal efforts to restore......

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