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Much has been written about the Everglades1 over the years but little analysis of “the game within the game” has been provided – what we don’t see or don’t want to even hear about. We seldom learn about how the Everglades Restoration or most other human endeavors of sizeable consequence have been managed, or mismanaged. Once a policy decision is made, we tend to move on to the next issue or problem even if the policy is proven to have failed.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    For an overview of the Everglades the reader is referred to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everglades

  2. 2.

    The authors make no claim to the procession of events after the DAMP design was approved in April, 2006.

  3. 3.

    Tom Huser was not given the opportunity to write its 40 year history.

  4. 4.

    The District received a sharp report in letter form, signed by the heads of Dade County Sewer and Water, Planning and Environmental Regulation indicating that such District action in the future would be challenged in court.

  5. 5.

    Although fully engaged in the resolution of the court injunction and the specifics of our rainfall driven plan for water deliveries into the Park, the Superintendent and the Director of the Park’s research station chose not to share the monitoring program they put into place to determine ecological responses.

  6. 6.

    Approved by the House of Representative Interior Committee chaired by Bruce Vento, who I had the pleasure of discussing our remembrances of those times before his premature death at 52 years of age.

  7. 7.

    Tamiami Trail is referred to as “no man’s land” for the simple fact that there is no governance structure that has ever been designed to unify management of the Everglades from Lake Okeechobee to Florida Bay.

  8. 8.

    To those who would argue for proxy ways of measuring environmental quality and social wellbeing, we would argue that a fundamentally new epistemology is needed.

  9. 9.

    “Ignorance, the stem and root of all evil” [Plato and echoed by St. Augustine, Robert Browning]

  10. 10.

    The reader must not conclude that the authors dream of a return to 1900; we seek only the return of functionality that makes the Everglades, the “Forever-glades”.

  11. 11.

    Based on a personal interview with Art Marshal at his home in Ingersoll, Florida, 1980.

  12. 12.

    The 1967 Jet Port showdown not-with-standing.

  13. 13.

    See narrative provided at this website for more detailed discussion www.evergladesplan.org/pm/projects/docs_12_wca3_dpm_ea.aspx

  14. 14.

    The “bleach white” appearance of the spoil piles along the interior canals in Water Conservation Areas 3 A & B were evidence of the oxidized muck that once was part of the spoil excavations.

  15. 15.

    Please do not confuse the obfuscation of their culture and tribal lands with the substitution of “fire water” with the addition of gambling regardless of its monetary enticements.

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Light, S.S., Adamowski, J. (2012). Flow in the Everglades. In: Karl, H., Scarlett, L., Vargas-Moreno, J., Flaxman, M. (eds) Restoring Lands - Coordinating Science, Politics and Action. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2549-2_13

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