http://wickershamsconscience.wordpress.com/2012/09/08/attacks-on-the-national-wildlife-refuges-any-convenient-lie/ Commentary, Reviews and Nature Photography Wed, 22 May 2013 17:34:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://wickershamsconscience.wordpress.com/2012/09/08/attacks-on-the-national-wildlife-refuges-any-convenient-lie/#comment-2339 Sat, 08 Sep 2012 16:26:12 +0000 http://wickershamsconscience.wordpress.com/?p=9730#comment-2339 I was born in Florida and watched over the past 40 plus years how it has been slowly choked, drained, squeezed and starved. The Everglades of my childhood, the Everglades of history books, no longer exists and it would take a miracle of mega proportions to ever bring it back. That said, the Everglades is hugely important to the ecological health and economy of south Florida. Any effort to restore, preserve, protect the swamp is only a benefit to the local people. But, like Georgia, Texas and increasingly Alaska, since when have the governors actually worked for the benefit of the people, not the benefit of Big Corp.

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