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Some Initial Thoughts from a Member of The Environmental Community

What is the initial reaction of a member of an environmental organization? Frankly, the initial reaction is considerable skepticism. Many projects have modified nature ostensibly to make a natural ecosystem more able to tolerate the stresses of man. Often these projects have "solved" one problem only by creating many others. Natural systems in general have demonstrated time and time again how little humans fully understand them. One example with which I am personally familiar is the Everglades." Under natural conditions, the Everglades were a wetland roughly forty miles wide and a hundred miles long in which water flowed slowly south down the south Florida peninsula from Lake Okeechobee into Florida Bay. A variety of small scale drainage projects had begun to disrupt the system even by 1940. In the late 1940s, the Army Corps of Engineers did a study that planned to channelize the Everglades into a series of hundreds of miles of canals and huge pumps. Although a large purpose of that effort was to provide drainage for agriculture and water supply for both agriculture and urban areas, the Army Corps of Engineers argued at the time that the changes would be beneficial for the Everglades. According to the Corps, this managed system would prevent flooding of the system in high rainfall years, and supply water to Everglades National Park, at the bottom of the system, in low rainfall years.