Everglades Restoration
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Everglades Restoration

Everglades Restoration

Historic water management efforts have dewatered the northern Everglades and adjacent wet prairies for agricultural production.  Sawgrass prairies have been altered to create retention areas for water containing agricultural fertilizers.  Sporadic, high volume releases from these water retention areas are flushed through the Everglades to the coastal estuaries along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts.

Florida Bay, Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie estuaries have experienced severe ecological changes due to these water use practices.  The reduction of clean, sustained fresh water flow causes salinity imbalances in the estuary waters leading to seagrass die-offs and blooms of harmful blue-green algae.  Scientific opinion holds that increased storage and treatment of fresh water and additional flow through the Everglades is essential to restoring these critical resources.


FFI's Actions

  • 3/23/21 - Everglades Restoration - Signed on to letter to the US House regarding continuation and expansion of funding for current and future Everglades restoration work in fiscal rear 2022 appropriation bills
     
  • 3/23/21 - Everglades Restoration - Signed on to letter to the US Senate regarding continuation and expansion of funding for current and future Everglades restoration work in fiscal rear 2022 appropriation bills
     
  • 5/15/20 - Signed on to a TRCP letter requesting House and Senate leadership include funding for Everglades restoration projects in the next possible stimulus/response package where conservation priorities may be considered.
     
  • 3/12/20 - Everglades Declaration and Support - FY21 Everglades Appropriations Conservation Community Request Letter - House
     
  • 3/6/20- Sign on to letter to House Appropriations Subcommitee on Energy and Water Development supporting funding in FY21 appropriations for Everglades Restoration.
     
  • 2/13/2017 -Everglades Declaration and Support - Everglades Declaration

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