Why Restore the Everglades - Part 6
The Future
- It's Up To Us!
The Everglades is a prized American treasure. This subtly beautiful ecosystem is home to the nation's largest park and epitomizes the very definition of the south Florida region. It is also an ecosystem under stress, for which an ambitious 30-year plus restoration plan has been developed.
The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan will revitalize the ecosystem, while providing future fresh water supplies for the people and farms of the region, too. It is considered the world's largest such project.
But its success is up to all of us: citizens across the nation and state
from the public, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Department of Interior,
the South Florida Water Management District and other agencies. Both input and
support will be required over the coming decades as we construct this ambitious
ecological restoration effort.
Twenty years from now, today's children should have the opportunity as adults to visit this majestic and captivating ecosystem and see its expansive sawgrass marshes and towering blue skies. The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan will ensure the River of Grass will be a healthier place than it is today, and one which will remain strong and vital in the future. We hope the information presented in this web site will help explain the problems of the Everglades and what we are doing to restore this national treasure.
