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Winter 2001 - V.16 N.4

NEWS AROUND THE LAGOON

Ban on Gill Nets Associated with Mullet Population Rebound

Indian River Lagoon South Feasibility Study Released

Ft. Pierce Works on Port Master Plan

Florida Slow to React to Toxic Algae

Legal Challenge to Manatee Zones

Buildings in Conflict with Comprehensive Plan to be Demolished

Army Corps Rollback Wetlands Mitigation Requirements

Central Florida To Run Out of Water in Five Years

Global Warming Threaten Estuaries

Boaters Suggest a Solution to Manatee Impacts

Everglades Restoration Office Closed

Conservation Lands Funded By FCT

Martin County Comp Plan Draws Fire From State

Everglades Restoration Office Closed
From the Palm Beach Post.
The Bush administration abruptly shut down the Everglades Restoration Office, in West Palm Beach, in November. The office was created last year to coordinate the Interior Department’s role in overseeing the 30 year project. The Interior Department said it was "streamlining staff" and would shift $1.3 million saved by the closure to two other south Florida projects: saving endangered Florida Key deer habitats and removing invasive weeds in the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge. Critics of the closure fear it will cause a lack of coordination among the federal agencies involved in the project and sees it as a lack of commitment from the Bush administration to the largest ecosystem restoration in history.

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