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Stolen Water : Saving the Everglades from Its Friends, Foes, and Florida
Stolen Water Saving the Everglades from Its Friends Foes and Florida
Author: W. Hodding Carter
When the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan went into effect during the Clinton administration, Florida's great grassy wilderness garnered a host of national attention -- and has since become a breeding ground for environmental dispute. What does it take to "save" a forest? How can it be preserved?Enter W. Hodding Carter. For an Outsid...  more » magazine feature he's agreed to paddle the ninety-nine-mile waterway in Everglades National Park to examine the landscape from all angles -- physical, political, cultural, and very personal -- and get to the rock-bottom heart of the story. Stolen Water is the outgrowth of Carter's journey.Through investigative research, eyewitness accounts, and interviews with key players in the conservation controversy, Carter offers a rare portrait of a national treasure. Utterly important, and at times downright hilarious, Stolen Water is a classic American adventure tale, and an environmental parable for our time.
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ISBN-13: 9780743474078
ISBN-10: 0743474074
Publication Date: 7/19/2005
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Atria
Book Type: Paperback
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