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everglades restoration  

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  • Over the past century, much of the Florida Everglades has been transformed from a principally subtropical wetland to a human-dominated system of agriculture and urban development. The present Everglades system is half its predisturbance size, the underlying water table is lower, the cyclical hydro-periods are altered, and the vital freshwater sheet flow is diverted to the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico (see satellite images A and B). [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; Everglades Restoration]

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