'Runaway Development' Threatens Florida Everglades

Sprawl is threatening the Florida Everglades and critics say the restoration plan is "unbelievably hypocritical."

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June 25, 2002, 7:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"The Naples area was the second-fastest-growing in America in the 1990s. The Fort Myers-Cape Coral area is not far behind. And the gated golf course communities that have come to define this subtropical mecca are spreading east...it's a major threat to the ecology of southwest Florida, the last refuge for endangered species... The restoration plan is in many ways an effort to clean up after southeast Florida's unbridled sprawl."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

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