How To Improve The Everglades

The Florida Everglades used to be a wonderful place until we had to ruin it with pollution. People often say they will fix things but just make them worse. People need to know how the Everglades came to be this way, that we almost failed our restoration, and the ways we can fix it. The everglades wasn’t always this dirty. The Everglades was once home to many rare species of plants and animals.The Everglades was always a delicate place, so a small change could do something big. The Seminole and Miccosukee tribes knew this and when going to like in the vast forest they tried not not to alter the land. When settlers from the from the outside of Florida came they considered it useless and wanted to drain it. From 1905-1910 the settlers began their construction or really deconstruction of the
The everglades has had three large droughts in the past 10 years. When the water amounts in the everglades are so low it will take more phosphorus and mud with it which is not good. One of the issues that the everglades faces is the sugar cane. The everglades is home for 440,000 acres of sugar cane. The more sugar can there is the less living land for plants and animals there is. Another reason the sugar cane is bad is because it is harvested for large industries and sold as sugar so most people don’t want it removed. But sugar cane brings a lot of nitrogen and phosphorus into the everglades. But there is still hope for the everglades in the source “Can we fix the water supply” it states “A supreme court decision made in 2004 implemented an $8.4 million project to re-establish the natural flow of water to the everglades in the next 30 years.” This means there is still hope for the everglades and nobody is giving up on the wonderful