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15-June-01

Deep U.S.-Europe Split Casts Long Shadow on Bush Tour

By FRANK BRUNI

GOTEBORG, Sweden, June 14 — President Bush and European leaders expressed sharp differences and conflicting intentions today about global warming at a summit meeting of the European Union and the United States.

It was Mr. Bush's first appearance at a European Union meeting, and his first introduction to several of the leaders, but it was also the second day in a row that he found himself at odds with European officials. On Wednesday, he clashed with leaders of the Atlantic Alliance on his plans for a missile defense shield. And that contentious issue is certain to come up again when he concludes his five- day, five-nation trip on Saturday with a meeting with Russian President Vladimir V. Putin.
Copyright  © 2001 NY Times online   All rights reserved.
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Commissioners will reconsider vote favoring Polluters

(Key West) – When they convene for their monthly meeting on June 20^th members of the Monroe County Commission will reconsider a decision to file an Amicus Curiae or "Friend of the Court" brief supporting Everglades Agricultural Area polluters currently pending before the Florida Supreme Court.

"On March 22^nd the Board of County Commissioners reached the truly surprising decision to side with the polluters - against the local environment, against the state constitution, and against their own taxpayers," said Everglades Foundation chair Mary Barley. "We are pleased that the Commission will reconsider this anti-taxpayer decision," Barley added.
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http://www.saveoureverglades.org/PR_Commission_will_page.htm

ACTION ALERT!!
WE NEED YOUR HELP!!

JUNE 20-21, 2001 - 10:00 a.m.-noon
MONROE COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MEETING

RECONSIDERATION OF EARLIER "ANTI-TAXPAYER" VOTE

Detailed Information on Anti-Taxpayer Vote
http://www.saveoureverglades.org/Monroe_CC_mtg_page.htm
(Shown below in part)

PLEASE KEEP CHECKING THIS SITE
http://www.saveoureverglades.org/Monroe_CC_mtg_page.htm

URGE MONROE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS TO SUPPORT KEYS TAXPAYERS NOT POLLUTERS!

Detailed Information on Anti-Taxpayer Vote

On March 22nd, the Monroe County Commission suddenly, and with little discussion, voted to file a "Friend of the Court" brief with the Florida Supreme Court supporting polluters. The Commissioners will reconsider this unfortunate decision on June 20, 2001 in Marathon between 10 a.m. and noon at the request of taxpayer advocacy and conservation groups.

Commissioners will be asked to decide whether they support innocent taxpayers or Everglades Agricultural Area polluters. Currently, the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) requires Keys residents to pay a million dollars per year in taxes to fund treatment facilities being built to clean sugar industry wastewater in the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA), 700,000 acres just south of Lake Okeechobee in Palm Beach and Hendry counties.
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14-June-01

Guarding Underwater Treasures in the Dry Tortugas

By JON NORDHEIMER

DRY TORTUGAS NATIONAL PARK, Fla. — Blue and lime green waters as far as the eye can see, brilliant in the strong spring sunshine, make this one of the most remote national parks in the continental United States.

Lying some 70 miles west of Key West and twice as far from the Florida peninsula, Dry Tortugas National Park is part of the Tortugas Bank, where sharp coral reefs over centuries sliced through the keels of the Spanish gold fleet and other unlucky vessels, romantically linking the Tortugas to buried ships laden with riches.

Anne Marie Eklund/NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service

Copyright  © 2001 NY Times online   All rights reserved.
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President Touts Environmental Agenda

SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) -- President Bush, eager to answer critics of his environmental record, toured the towering, ancient sequoia trees here Wednesday and promised to protect ``these works of God'' for the ages.

Standing in front of an ancient tree, the president said, ``Only man is capable of cutting down a sequoia. Only man is fully capable of appreciating its beauty.''

Bush announced a new directive calling for rangers to conduct annual reviews of each national park, and he renewed his call for a five-year, $5 billion effort to address a heavy maintenance backlog. He also cited a string of administration initiatives he said would protect the nation's air, water and land.
Copyright  © 2001 AP  All rights reserved.
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12-June-01

Florida G.O.P. Sees Bush Visit as Latest Slight

By RICHARD L. BERKE

ORLANDO, Fla., June 11 — Republican lawmakers from Florida are furious at the White House, saying it bungled opportunities to cultivate a state that has a high-profile governor's race next year and is vital for President Bush's electoral fortunes in 2004.

These Republicans said they feared that President Bush was jeopardizing his party's position in Florida as resentment here over the disputed presidential election united and energized Democrats.

While Republicans cited many concerns, they said their frustration boiled over last week when Mr. Bush traveled to the Everglades National Park. The White House did not invite major Republican lawmakers who had for years championed legislation to protect the Everglades.
Copyright  © 2001 NY Times online   All rights reserved.
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11-June-01

U.S. Losing Status as a World Leader in Climate
By ANDREW C. REVKIN

In little more than a decade, the United States has fallen significantly behind other countries in its ability to simulate and predict long-term shifts in climate, according to a wide range of scientists and recent federal studies.

This slide in status has occurred amid a growing scientific consensus that rising levels of heat-trapping emissions from smokestacks and tailpipes are warming the climate and could become the biggest environmental problem of the next 100 years.

President Bush plans to use a Rose Garden speech on global warming policy today to propose several ways to improve the situation, government officials say, including an increase in money for basic climate research and an effort to coordinate American climate-modeling efforts with those abroad.
Copyright  © 2001 NY Times online   All rights reserved.
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Bush Seeks Middle Ground on Global Warming
By David E. Sanger

WASHINGTON, June 11 — President Bush sought again today to stake out the middle ground on the issue of global warming, calling for more research on greenhouse emissions but reiterating his stand that a proposed treaty on warming is fatally defective.

"The issue of climate change respects no borders," Mr. Bush said in a Rose Garden speech. "Its effects can be reined in by no army."

The president noted that China, second-largest emitter of greenhouse cases after the United States, would be exempt from the treaty negotiated in Kyoto, Japan, as would India. "We want to work cooperatively with these countries in their efforts to reduce greenhouse emissions and maintain economic growth," Mr. Bush said.
Copyright  © 2001 NY Times online   All rights reserved.
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Bush Plans Global Warming Study

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Before leaving for Europe where his environmental policies have come under attack, President Bush announced new initiatives to study the rise in the Earth's temperature. He reasserted that a proposed treaty on global warming is fatally flawed.

Bush spoke Monday in the Rose Garden, reaffirming his decision in March to pull the United States out of negotiations to finalize the Kyoto treaty on global warming. He called for research into technological solutions to slow greenhouse emissions -- without hurting the economy.

America is the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, which result in part from human activities, such as burning fossil fuels. But Bush said the United States also accounts for about one-quarter of the world's economic output.
Copyright  © 2001 AP  All rights reserved.
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06-June-01

Governor Bush and Cabinet May be Last Hope for Critically Ill Okeechobee
Lake Okeechobee Close To Point Of No Return
© Earthjustice
TALLAHASSEE, FL-- Reacting to the critically ill nature of Lake Okeechobee, leading Florida environmental groups today appealed to Florida Governor Jeb Bush and the Cabinet to order a halt to the pumping of polluted water into the ecologically fragile lake. The groups asked the Governor and Cabinet to reverse a March 27 decision by the South Florida Water Management District to backpump nutrient-rich water into the lake, which is already severely polluted. Earthjustice, Environmental Land Use Law Center, Florida Audubon Society, Florida Wildlife Federation, and Friends of Lake Okeechobee all are participating in today’s action. "Backpumping is devastating for the aquatic life in Lake Okeechobee," said Ansley Samson, an attorney with Earthjustice. "The lake is already in such critical condition, it’s on the verge of becoming a complete dead zone. This intentional addition of pollution is short-sighted and potentially catastrophic, and the Governor and Cabinet need to step in now to stop it before it’s too late."  Read more

 

05-June-01

Daley Wants Sugar Subsidy Reform

CHICAGO (AP) - The candy capital of the world is sour about high U.S. sugar prices.

Concerned that local candy manufacturers are cutting back and taking jobs abroad, Mayor Richard M. Daley showed up at North America's largest candy trade show Tuesday with some not-so-sweet words for Congress about the need for sugar subsidy reform.

Firing the latest salvo of a fast-intensifying lobbying campaign, he and executives of Chicago's candy industry said federal price supports are dealing a serious blow to businesses that are heavily dependent on sugar.
Copyright  © 2001 AP  All rights reserved.
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04-June-01

Bush highlights commitment to Everglades restoration

 EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK -- (AP) -- President Bush was touring the sawgrass prairies of this celebrated wetland today, renewing his pledge to help restore its wounded ecosystems and seeking to build a conservationist image.  Bush made his third Florida trip since becoming president to announce a new National Park Service director, Fran Mainella, the longtime head of parks in this state.  In the lush and muggy park, Bush was reminding listeners that his proposed 2002 budget includes $219 million for Everglades restoration. That is $58 million more than this year, White House officials said.  Bush signed a bill that will enhance cooperation between federal agencies as they work to reduce wildfire risks. Fires sparked by lightning in the Everglades and elsewhere ignited about 1,200 acres Saturday.  And he was hiking the Anhinga Trail, named for a fishing bird that inhabits the Everglades.  But even as Bush touted a ``new environmentalism for the 21st century,'' there were reminders of the fierce opposition some of his policies have provoked among environmentalists: Several dozen protesters, some dressed as oil barrels, greeted him at the park entrance.  Before heading to a tax-cut celebration in Tampa, Bush was meeting with the Most Rev. John Favalora, the Miami archbishop, and with about 40 Hispanic leaders.  Everglades National Park, sprawling across the southern tip of Florida, is undergoing a 40-year, $7.8 billion restoration project aimed at improving water quality, storage and flow into the region.
Copyright  © 2001 AP  All rights reserved.
Read article  http://www.law.miami.edu/everglades/news/2001/06/060401_miami_herald_bush_highlights_commit_glades.htm

George W. does the 'Glades thing
CARL HIAASEN

President Bush travels to Florida tomorrow on a new campaign to prove he really doesn't hate nature. Buoyed by his triumphant communing with a giant sequoia tree in California, the president plans to celebrate federal efforts to restore and preserve the Everglades.  Concerned that Bush is perceived as indifferent to environmental concerns, the White House carefully has crafted a Florida itinerary that will show the president as a caring, sensitive friend of the Earth: 8 a.m. Air Force One arrives at Miami International Airport.  Photo opportunity: President cradles a small burrowing owl that has been digging a nest near runway Nine-Right.  Prepared comment: ``Imagine such a tiny thing living among these huge noisy jumbo jets -- what better example of nature and mankind co-existing in harmony!''  9:05. Motorcade enters Everglades National Park.  Photo op: President pauses to admire a mangrove.  Prepared comment: ``While perhaps not as imposing as the great sequoias, this humble tree plays a unique role in nurturing marine life.
Copyright  © 2001 Miami Herald  All rights reserved.
Read article  http://www.law.miami.edu/everglades/news/2001/06/060401_miami_herald_bush_glades_thing.htm

Posted 01-June-01

Florida Trend

- MARCH 2001 ISSUE

Fragile How the $8-billion restoration deal will work — and how it could fall apart. By Cynthia Barnett and Mike Vogel   No wonder the champagne corks were popping. An unlikely group of environmentalists, water managers, political appointees and industry representatives celebrated in January at an Everglades Coalition meeting on Hutchinson Island in southeast Florida. Just the month before, then-President Bill Clinton, with Gov. Jeb Bush in attendance, had signed into law a $7.8-billion program to save the Everglades — presumably ending years of fighting among environmental groups, the sugar industry and urban water users. Representatives of business and environmental causes had practically held hands while selling the plan to Congress as a way to end the disarray, delay and confusion over the Everglades’ fate. “This is a group of people that had been at war with each other for a generation,” says Michael Collins, chairman of the South Florida Water Management District Board, who became involved in Everglades policy in 1976, when as a fishing guide he began to notice changes in sea grasses in Florida Bay. “Over the years it was ugly and it was brutal, but in the end this coalition produced a miracle.”

Copyright  © 2001 Florida Trend  All rights reserved.

http://www.floridatrend.com/issue/default.asp?a=4303&s=1&d=3/1/2001

8.5 Square Mile Area: Everglades Flood Migitation Project Moves Ahead On Time and On Budget
When Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt mentions a specific flood-control project at the annual Everglades Coalition Conference, there is a good chance the project is important to many people.
By Chuck Sinclair and Richard Gibney
© Stormwater Feature
The 8.5 Square Mile Area (SMA), a component of the Modified Water Deliveries to Everglades National Park Project, has long been a source of controversy associated with the Everglades restoration. It has been referred to in public forums as the linchpin of the entire Everglades restoration initiative because of the political wrangling between public agencies, environmental groups, civic organizations, and Native American tribes. Despite its name, the 8.5 SMA is an area of approximately 10 mi.2 in Miami-
Dade County, FL, consisting of agricultural, residential, and undeveloped land. It sits in the East Everglades, on the eastern edge of Everglades National Park (ENP) and just west of the flood-protection levees that separate the natural Everglades system and the suburbs of Metropolitan Miami. Landowners have been allowed to develop the property since the 1970s despite the absence of flood protection for the area. In 1989, federal law mandated that flood mitigation be provided to ensure that the area would
be unaffected by future increased restoration flows to the eastern Everglades.   Read more

 

  Litigation

28-August-01

(Filed on 08-Feb-01)

BARLEY vs. SFWMD

The Supreme Court of Florida accepts jurisdiction and sets calendar for oral argument 
Case No.: SC00-1998 Lower Tribunal No.: 5D98-3178

MARY BARLEY, ETC., ET AL. vs. SOUTH FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT Petitioners Respondents

ORDER ACCEPTING JURISDICTION AND SETTING ORAL ARGUMENT

The Court has accepted jurisdiction of this case and will hear oral argument at 9:00 a.m. TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2001. A maximum of TWENTY minutes to the side is allowed, but counsel is expected to use only so much of that time as is necessary. Petitioners' brief on the merits shall be served on or before MARCH 5, 2001; Respondent's brief on the merits shall be served 20 days after service of petitioners' brief on the merits; and petitioners' reply brief on the merits shall be served 20 days after service of respondent's brief on the merits. Please file an original and seven copies of all briefs. UNLESS BRIEFS ARE TIMELY FILED, THE PRIVILEGE OF ORAL ARGUMENT WILL BE FORFEITED. The Clerk of the District Court of Appeal, FIFTH District, shall file the original record on or before MARCH 26, 2001. NO CONTINUANCES WILL BE GRANTED EXCEPT UPON A SHOWING OF EXTREME HARDSHIP.

HARDING, ANSTEAD, PARIENTE AND QUINCE, JJ., concur. LEWIS, J., dissents.

[signed] Thomas D. Hall Clerk, Supreme Court

Served: HON. FRANK J. HABERSHAW, CLECK JON MILS PAUL L. NETTLETON REBECCA O'HARA RICHARD A. KELLER RUTH P. CLEMENTS WILLIAM L. HYDE

Notes:

The above notice is posted here in pdf download format under February 2001: http://www.flcourts.org/sct/clerk/Review%20Granted/index.html

Fifth District Court of Appeal opinions are not online.
To watch/hear oral arguments live: http://wfsu.org/gavel2gavel/

  Legislation

  New Bills

Senate action:

 

•  Search Thomas 

  Congressional Testimony

 

 

March 2001

Alligators and Litigators : A Recent History of Everglades Regulation and Litigation
by Keith W. Rizzardi

To many Florida lawyers, litigation in the Everglades seems as old as the Everglades itself. Its history can be traced back to the 1800s when Hamilton Disston and Henry Flagler were draining, dredging, and filling Florida's land while fighting in the courts with shareholders, speculators, and state land administrators.  The modern history of litigation in the Everglades is dominated by agricultural interests, environmental interest groups, the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians, and state and federal agencies. Along the way, important precedents have been created, affecting the Everglades as well as Florida administrative and environmental law in general.

Copyright  © 2001  The Florida Bar Journal 

10-May-01

Florida Forever Work Plan

http://www.sfwmd.gov/org/wsd/cerp/forever.pdf
(182 pages, 3 MB download file)

In 1999, the Florida Forever program was created, which authorized the issuance of bonds in an amount not to exceed $3 billion for acquisitions of land and water areas. This revenue is to be used for restoration, conservation, recreation, water resource development, historical preservation and capital improvements to such land and water areas. This program is intended to accomplish environmental restoration, enhance public access and recreational enjoyment, promote long-term management goals, and facilitate water resource development.

Water management districts are required to create a five-year plan that identifies projects meeting specific criteria. In developing their project lists, each district is to integrate its surface water improvement and management plans, Save Our Rivers land acquisition lists, stormwater management projects, proposed water resource development projects, proposed water body restoration projects, and other properties or activities that would assist in meeting the goals of Florida Forever.  The initial plan must be submitted by June 1, 2001 to the President of the Senate, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection. By January 1 of each year thereafter, each district must then report on acquisitions completed during the year, as well as modifications or additions to its five-year work plan.  The plans will also include the status of funding, staffing and resource management for every project funded for which the district is responsible.

Thirty-five percent of the Florida Forever bond proceeds are distributed annually to FDEP for land acquisition and capital expenditures in order to implement the priority lists submitted by the water management districts.  A minimum of fifty percent of the funding is to be used for land acquisition.  The South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) annual net share is $33,075,000. The Everglades Restoration Investment Act, Section 373.470(5)(b), F.S., mandates that for ten consecutive years, $25M of this funding is to be used to implement the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP). Since approximately 75 percent of the Florida Forever funding that the SFWMD will receive will be dedicated to CERP, CERP is a major focus of the SFWMD Florida Forever Workplan.  This work plan describes specific projects that will be eligible for Florida Forever funding in the FY2001 - 2005 period. It is arranged in sections that correspond to the regions described in the August, 2000 CERP Master Program Management Plan. Additionally, it includes projects for which the SFWMD expects to seek reimbursement through Florida Forever in fiscal year 200: the Western C-11 Diversion Impoundment and Canal (Cell 11), C-43 Basin Storage Reservoir, and Kissimmee River Restoration.

See the SFWMD's Florida Forever Work Plan
http://www.sfwmd.gov/org/wsd/cerp/forever.pdf

 

2000

Committee on Restoration of the Greater Everglades Ecosystem

 Aquifer Storage and Recovery in the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan: A Critique of the Pilot Projects and Related Plans for ASR in the Lake Okeechobee and Western Hillsboro Areas.  A federal law enacted in December calls for a multi-billion dollar effort to restore the Florida Everglades' natural ecosystem. This report offers advice on restoration pilot projects that would involve storing excess surface water underground and pumping it back up for use during droughts.

Aquifer Storage and Recovery in the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan: A Critique of the Pilot Projects and Related Plans for ASR in the Lake Okeechobee and Western Hillsboro Areas

Copyright  © 2000 National Academies  All rights reserved.

 

19, 20-Feb-01

22-Mar-01

All Eyes on Florida: Revitalizing, Restoring and Revisiting
The seventh annual public interest environmental conference

University Conference Center Doubletree
Gainesville, FL
March 22-24, 2001

This student-run conference brings together diverse interests to take part in panels discussing a multitude of environmental issues. This form of interaction allows the parties to develop understanding and even cooperation on difficult environmental conflicts that may otherwise be impossible.   The University of Florida College of Law's Environmental and Land Use Law Society in cooperation with the Florida Bar

05-Sep-01

Wetlands and Remediation: The Second International Conference

Background: In November, 1999, Battelle Memorial Institute, a not-for-profit research organization based in Columbus, Ohio, sponsored and organized a wetlands and remediation conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, that brought together more than 300 wetlands and remediation experts to discuss common issues related to cleaning up contaminated wetlands and using wetlands (both natural and constructed) for treating contaminated ground-, surface-, and wastewater. Based on the success of that meeting, Battelle is pleased to announce that Wetlands and Remediation: The Second International Conference will be held September
5-6, 2001, at the Sheraton Burlington Hotel and Conference Center in Burlington, Vermont.

Organization: Karl Nehring of Battelle (614/424-6510, nehringk@battelle.org), Conference Chairman, will be responsible for coordinating the development of the technical program. Carol Young (614/424-7604, youngc@battelle.org) will be the Conference Coordinator, responsible for scheduling, correspondence, and issues involving abstract and manuscript submittal and preparation. The Conference Group (800/783-6338, conferencegroup@compuserve.com) of Columbus, Ohio, is
handling the meeting logistics.

Format: After an opening plenary session, there will be multiple platform sessions (two or three concurrent tracks), and a poster session on Wednesday evening. Speakers at the Plenary Session will include Dr. Jean-Paul Schwitzguebel of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Dr. Barry Warner of the University of Waterloo (current vice president of the Society of Wetland Scientists) and Dr. John Pardue of Louisiana State University.

Sponsorship: Battelle is the sponsor and organizer, and we are hoping to add co-sponsors for the 2001 conference. Parsons Engineering Science, Morrison Knudsen Corporation, the U.S. DoD Environmental Security Technical Certification Program/Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program, and the U.S. Naval Facilities Engineering Command were co-sponsors of the 1999 Conference. Organizations interested in co-sponsoring the 2001 Conference should contact The Conference Group.

Participating Organizations: Organizations committed to helping with publicity for the conference and encouraging participation should contact The Conference Group at 800/783-6338. Participating organizations for the 1999 meeting included The Center for Wetlands and Riparian Design (University of Utah), Environmental Business Journal, the USDA NRCS Wetlands Science Institute, the University of Florida Center for Wetlands, The Michigan State University Institute of Water
Research, the Olentangy River Wetland Research Park (The Ohio State University), The Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences/Coastal
Ecology Institute (Louisiana State University), The U.S. Army Construction Engineering Laboratory, the Utah Water Research Laboratory (Utah State University), the Tennessee Valley Authority, and the New York State Wetlands Forum.

Exhibitors: Companies or organizations interested in having an exhibit booth at the conference should contact The Conference Group at 800/783-6338.

Schedule: The Call for Abstracts will be mailed in November 2000; the deadline for submitting abstracts will be March 5, 2001. Once the program has been finalized and accepted presenters have been sent acceptance letters, a preliminary program will be mailed. 

Proceedings: A proceedings volume will be prepared and then published by Battelle Press and mailed to registrants shortly after the conference. Proceedings papers will be optional but strongly encouraged from all presenters, both platform and poster. Authors wishing to have their papers appear in the proceedings will be requested to provide camera-ready copies of their papers by July 13.

Registration: Because registration fees are by far the major source of funding for the conference and a significant percentage of registrants will make presentations, all presenting authors and session chairs are expected to register and pay the standard fees.  Potential topics for this conference include:

- Natural Attenuation in Wetlands
- Biological and Ecological Considerations
- Risk-Based Wetlands Remediation
- Regulatory Trends 
- Economic Factors in Wetlands Remediation and Restoration 
- Wetlands Hydrology and Morphology 
- Wetlands Microbial Ecology 
- Phytoremediation and Macrophytes in Wetlands 
- Wetlands for the Remediation and Treatment of Wastewater 
- Wetlands Treatment of Contaminated Sediments 
- GIS and Remediation 
- Innovative Technologies for Wetlands Investigations 
- Non-point Source Pollution and Agricultural Runoff 
- Redox Processes in Wetlands 
- Contaminant Fate and Environmentally Acceptable Endpoints 
- Wetlands Design and Construction 
- Creating Wetlands using Dredge Spoils 
- Wetlands Restoration and Mitigation 
- Explosives and Wetlands 
- Hydrocarbon-Contaminated Wetlands 
- Mine Waste Considerations 
- Metals and Inorganics in Wetlands 
- Perchlorate-Contaminated Wetlands 
- Groundwater/Surface Water Interfaces

27-May-01 

USC list of law journals
http://www.usc.edu/dept/law-lib/legal/journals.html

St. Thomas Law School
http://www.stu.edu/lawschool/index.htm

Nova Southeastern Shepard Broad Law Center 
http://www.nsulaw.nova.edu/

Florida Coastal School of Law 
http://www.fcsl.edu/
 
University of Florida Levin College of Law 
http://www.law.ufl.edu/

Florida State University College of Law 
http://www.law.fsu.edu/

Stetson University College of Law 
http://www.law.stetson.edu/

Columbia Online Style: MLA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources 
Citation styles developed by Janice Walker (University of South Florida) and endorsed by the Alliance for Computers and Writing (ACW).
http://enlishttu.edu/acw

Yahoo listings for "Internet Citation" - Links to several online citation Web sites http://www.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Linguistics_and_Human_Languages/Languages/English/

Yahoo listings for Writing for the Web
Collection of cites with general advice about writing and publishing online
http://www.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Communications/Writing/Writing_for_the_Web/

25-May-01 


Link:  Legal 

Florida Supreme Court Briefs and Opinions
Florida State University College of Law web site
http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/flsupct/index.html

Link:  Educational

Expedition Everglades   

Journey into the Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration: Learn how we are rescuing our "River of Grass." Discover our plan to preserve this wondrous place   
(Ft. Lauderdale Museum of Discovery and Science educational program, 3/01)                http://www.mods.org/education5.htm 

 

03-April-01 

Link:  Organizations (Federal Government)

U.S. Geological Survey

Geological Survey activities in connection with the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP: General information, vision statement, team members and program coordinator
http://fl.water.usgs.gov/CERP/cerp.html

Recent USGS water resources publications about Florida
http://fl.water.usgs.gov/recentpubs.html

U.S. Geological Survey, Florida District
http://fl.water.usgs.gov

 

Links:  Ecology (Advocacy) links

The Last Noah’s Ark

Brazil

What is it?
The environmental program The Last Noah’s Ark is result of years of studies of his idealizer Antonio Silveira Ribeiro dos Santos in natural history and environmental area. Created in August 1995 and registered at 7th notary public office of São Paulo (n0 249.836). Author rights register n0 106.123, book 158, pages 418.

The Purposes
• Conscious about the necessity of nature’s preservation and conservation;
• Development of studies for an effective protection of species and main ecosystern;
• Promoting environmental education at all levels;
• Improving the quality of global life;
• Supplying subvention for the improvement of Environment’s Rights.

What makes the difference?
It is a program created and developed by a person who puts together concerned people with the same idea and an equal participation, without obedience. It is not an ONG.
The program does not accept any direct monetary help. Eventually the interested people may collaborate by lending goods to the program.

http://www.aultimaarcadenoe.com/indexingles.htm

 

08-March-01

Legal (Academic Organizations) links

Florida State University
The Florida Resources and Environmental Analysis Center (FREAC) 

Established in 1969, is the original center within the Institute of Science and Public Affairs (ISPA) at Florida State University (FSU). FREAC professionals conduct research in the general areas of resource management and environmental analysis, as well as provide advice and technical assistance to state and local agencies. Public lands research and analysis, geographic information system development, and graphic representation of digital databases are current and long-range FREAC research interests. FREAC also trains university students in these areas through direct involvement in projects, providing real-world experiences.

             •   FREAC - Florida Resources and Environmental Analysis Center  

08-March-01

Water Resources Atlas of Florida (1998) Florida State University Editors:
Edward A. Fernald and Elizabeth D. Purdum

Library of Congress Catalog Number 98-072985
ISBN 0-9606708-2-3

Complete update and revision of the widely acclaimed 1984 atlas. The comprehensive reference on Florida's water resources and their management.  Hundreds of full-color maps, photos, charts, and graphs.  Contributors are from U.S. Geological Survey, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, the Water Management Districts of Florida and universities. Information on purchasing the Water Resources Atlas of Florida and other publications can be obtained here:
http://www.freac.fsu.edu/atlases.html

Section I: Introduction

1 Water Issues: Global, National, State, Ecosystem

Section II: Florida's Water Resources

2 Weather and Climate
3 Groundwater
4 Surface Water
5 Natural Systems
6 Water Use
7 Water Quality

Section III: Management and Regional Diversity

 8 History of Water Management
 9 Northwest Florida Water Management District
10 Suwanee River Water Management District
11 St. Johns River Water Management District
12 Southwest Florida Water Management District
13 South Florida Water Management District

Section IV: Issues and Conflicts

14 Water Economics and Finance
15 Law and Policy in Managing Water Resources

Illustration Examples

Photo album (direct links below)
http://www.photoloft.com/view/Album.asp?s=plft&u=71267&a=967559

Florida topography (light-to-dark)
0-50-100-150-200-250-300 feet above sea level
http://www.photoloft.com/view/Image.asp?s=plft&u=71267&a=967559&i=6417964

Florida wetlands (1989)
http://www.photoloft.com/view/Image.asp?s=plft&u=71267&a=967559&i=6417973

Florida water management districts
http://www.photoloft.com/view/Image.asp?s=plft&u=71267&a=967559&i=6417973

More illustrations can be seen here:
http://www.evergladesvillage.net/atlas_of_fla/atlas.html

 

10-Feb-01

The American Association of Law Libraries

The American Association of Law Libraries was founded in 1906 to promote and enhance the value of law libraries to the legal and public communities, to foster the profession of law librarianship, and to provide leadership in the field of legal information.

Today, with over 4,800 members, the Association represents law librarians and related professionals who are affiliated with a wide range of institutions: law firms; law schools; corporate legal departments; courts; and local, state and federal government agencies.

http://www.aallnet.org/

SEAALL

the Southeastern Chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries.  SEAALL is a not-for-profit organization incorporated in Florida with the purposes of promoting law librarianship and developing and increasing the usefulness of law libraries, particularly those in the Southeastern area of the United States.

SEAALL was originally established in 1954 -- an expansion of the Carolinas Chapter (established in 1939 as AALL's first chapter).   Today our membership is over 500 strong, representing law librarians from the private sector, the government, academia, and more. For more on the history of SEAALL, please see From the SEAALL Attic, by Hazel Johnson. A continuing mission for SEAALL has always been to provide educational services for its members.  This is primarily accomplished through the many educational offerings at our annual meeting and through instructive articles, pathfinders, and bibliographies in our newsletter, The Southeastern Law Librarian.

http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/seaall/index.shtml

 

06-Feb-01

•  Ramsar Convention on Wetlands

Ramsar and Wetlands International 1999 Directory of Wetlands of International Importance

Web directory

 

 

•  UNEP/GPA News Forum

United Nations Environment Programme
A News and Information Service of the Global Programme of Action (GPA) for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities

•  Environmental News Network

Education site
Only one in three adult Americans has a passing understanding of our most pressing environmental issues.  National Environmental Education and Training Foundation

•   League of Conservation voters, Presidential profiles

Political analysis of Presidential candidates' environmental platform
New section on Cheney's record (07-24-00)

•  Everglades Restoration Plan

Comprehensive site dedicated to educating the public about the restoration plan

•  Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division (DMRD)
The controversy surrounding dihydrogen monoxide has never been more widely debated, and the goal of this site is to provide an unbiased data clearinghouse and a forum for public discussion. The success of this site depends on you, the citizen concerned about Dihydrogen Monoxide. We welcome your comments and suggestions.
http://www.dhmo.org/



26-Oct-00

•  Living on Earth  
http://www.loe.org/thisweek/highlight.htm#1

 

 

 

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Revised:  01/08/04