|Digital Library of the Caribbean||english español français|
|dLOC Home |||About dLOC | Partners | Topical Collections | RSS|
Interviews in the 'Everglades Oral History Collection' provide
insight in the myriad of problems and issues surrounding
restoration of the Florida Everglades. The interviewees include
environmentalists, scientists, politicians, district engineers
from the Army Corps of Engineers, industrialists, directors of
Florida Water Management districts, Florida legislators, and
federal government employees. Discussion topics center on
influence of and coordination between environmental groups,
lobbying by environmental groups, pesticides and mercury levels,
water conservation, growth management, relationship between
National Park Service and Army Corps of Engineers, Everglades
Forever Act, Save Our Everglades, use of aquatic crops, drought
and flood conditions, role of scientists in restoration,
obstacles to restoration, sugar industry, various taxes,
comprehensive plans and task forces, public