Tourists walk up the ramp of an observation tower at Everglades National Park, Fla. An $8.4 billion restoration project aims to reverse damage from decades of development and pollution to the park. (David Adame - AP)
Shark Valley, the Florida Everglades. (Photo: Chris Johns - National Geographic)
• Can-Do Thinking on the Everglades Florida Gov. Jeb Bush responds to "The Swamp" series, saying the articles "seemed crafted largely to undermine support" for the project.
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Live Online • Michael Grunwald, Washington Post reporter, discussed The Swamp series. (Read the transcript.) • Shannon Estenoz, national co-chair of the Everglades Coalition and director of the World Wildlife Fund's Everglades Program. (Read the transcript.) • Robert K. Dawson, a lobbyist whose firm's current clients include several Florida agribusiness associations. (Read the transcript) • The Post's Grunwald. (Read the transcript)
This series, based on more than 200 interviews and thousands of pages of documents, shows that the $7.8 billion plan to restore the Everglades may result in little restoration but will certainly increase water supplies for Florida residents, farmers and businesses, who already lead the nation in per-capita water consumption.
Fla. to Speed Up Everglades Cleanup Florida Gov. Jeb Bush plans to announce an ambitious plan Thursday to accelerate the flagging $8 billion effort to restore the Everglades ecosystem.
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