I am saddened to see the encroachment of civilization in the Northern Everglades; the "progress" on 441 and Atlantic Blvd. in Delray Beach is really depressing. The Ag Reserve being developed in Palm Beach county. We certainly need million dollar homes rather than locally grown produce. Why is it called the Ag Reserve since nothing is being reserved? The southern Everglades are being choked by the "progress" of human growth in Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties. It needed to be restored 20 years ago and state and federal governments keep dragging their feet on the issue. The Everglades is our water supply and we shouldn't be so casual about it. People come from around the world to see the "River of Grass"; it is a unique, natural wonder and brings tourist dollars into the state. Scott is the worst governor we have ever had but he is the best that right-wing money can buy. It's obvious that he doesn't care about the citizens of Florida as evidenced by the decisions he has made since becoming governor. Hopefully, he is just a 1 term wonder.

The framework of commercial and military/industrial behemoths is always greed.
Nothing is of greater concern and nothing can change that sad fact. When you mix that factor with the gone mad sexual drives of humanity especially in third world areas where ignorance is a cult maintained by evil religious fantasy you cannot help forecasting the demise of the planet.
The planet's abundance of "me me" loaded thinking needs watchdogs Like EarthJustice to try and hold back the seas of greed that beset our races. But like King Canute They are unlikely to stop the incoming tides
Only a phenomenal calamity can reduce the human population to a reasonable level. May it never reach the stage where its blemishes are able to pollute the universe by space migration The heavens deserve better tenants.
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Thanks so much for all your dedication and hard work! As Dwight D. Eisenhower warned, the military and industrial complex is surely wreaking havoc in all areas of life, and myopically with the very planet that sustains it.

Should you have any volunteer opportunities in my area, please let me know.

With appreciation,
Marie Spike
Delray Beach, FL

I am so glad that someone with some power is on the People's side for a change.

Thanks so very much for all your hard work and dedication. The heartless and greedy corporate machines are certainly responsible for the ruination of our environment, as well as for so many other problems in our society as Dwight D. Eisenhower so gravely predicted.

Please contact me if you need volunteer help in the Delray Beach area. Though I work full time, I interested in doing what I can.

All the best,
Marie Spike

Thanks so very much for your expertise and dedication toward the monumental fight to help save what's left of Florida's natural paradise. The colossal machine of corporate destruction is ruining our environment, as well as our entire society.

While I am an ardent online activist, I'm interested in doing more to help in the field on my time off. Please contact me if you need volunteers in my area.

Marie Spike
Delray Beach, FL

Well...where do you think the $73 million that got Scott elected came from, exactly? It didn't come from environmental organizations.

We're all being snowed under by corporate sponsorship of ultra-conservative candidates. It was bad enough before "Citizens United" (ironic name, that), but now the floodgates have opened, threatening to wash away all the environmental progress we have made in the last 30 years.

As much as I love nature and support environmental causes, it's painfully clear to me that we "citizens" have to be "united" to pass a Constitutional amendment to strike down the ultra-conservative Supreme Court's misguided and unfortunate (read: "disasterous") ruling.

May I suggest that all environmental organizations provide links to the "Move to Amend" website, so all liberals, progressives and sane independents may add their voice to the rising chorus crying "foul" at this blantant conservative power grab?

Just a suggestion...

George Colangelo
Orlando

Media attention has continued to sway from positive to negative
according to those who are paying for the publications.

As a long time Florida citizen, and as a concerned one, I have watched the politics
over the ignoring, and then the proposals, for restoration of various sections of the
Sea of Grass, as Marjory Stoneman Douglas wrote about The Everglades, and I
wonder at the lack of pride in this wondrous body of water.

An attitude of "so its there, so what?", pervades the ordinary population with an
ignorance of Nature's bounty. Human beings generally 'see' what they need to see
and refuse to incorporate into their current agenda things that don't count in their
immediate agendas. And that is good for the usual occupier of the land and its environs.

More will become a part of the ensuing conversation, and soon, I hope.

Please leave the everglades alone, let Holeyland be restored and returned to native habitat,

so that it can store and filter water the way it once did. Its been damaged enough used as a bombing range, let it live again, Please, for the nature lovers and animals that live there.