2000: The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan, or CERP, is authorized by Congress to restore and protect South ...

A remote site in the Florida Everglades almost became the world's largest airport but was canceled for environmental and ...

1845: Florida becomes 27th state. 1881: Real estate developer Hamilton Disston buys 4 million acres and begins efforts to drain the Everglades. 1906: The first dredging project began in South ...

Everglades: A unique subtropical wetland ecosystem that once covered about 3 million acres of South Florida. Water once flowed down the Kissimmee River into Lake Okeechobee then south to Florida Bay.

The Everglades is a unique ecosystem unlike any in the world. We ruined it. Getting it back is expensive, tedious and ...

Ron DeSantis to prioritize Everglades restoration ... by the Herbert Hoover Dike and the land south of it gouged by drainage canals that funneled the water away to allow for farming and ...

Lake Okeechobee was artificially connected to the Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie rivers as a way to drain Lake Okeechobee and the Everglades for farming and development. Over the decades ...