Corps Tries To Balance Sparrows And Communities
25 July 2001 - 2:00pm
A federal plan to protect endangered sparrows in the Everglades National Park would increase water levels in a key canal and remove a levee. Area farmers and communities oppose the plan.
"The Army Corps defends its plan, calling it a compromise...Environmental groups contend the Corps has delivered both too much and too little water to the sparrow in past. The Miccosukee Tribe charges the Corps with illegally flooding its sovereign lands. State water managers accuse environmental groups of a 'single species' focus that endangers other threatened species..."
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Wetting sparrow habitat has neighbors sputtering
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The Miami Herald, July 23, 2001
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