Good overview of the Everglades restoration process and the challenge of balancing multiple interests. Click title for link to an article that appeared in the Town Crier newspaper - covering the western part of urbanized Palm Beach County. From the article:
Barnett said a notion of restoring the 4 million acres of Everglades to its original state is not reasonable, logical, rational or attainable. “What is attainable is the 2 million acres that are left. How can we best re-create the hydrologic conditions, the ecologic conditions and the biological conditions that existed prior to the drainage?” he said.