Take Everglades Action on Wed, Dec 5
From Jonathan Ullman of the Sierra Club & Build the Skyway: On the afternoon of Wednesday, December 5, in downtown Miami, the future of the Tamiami Trail and the Everglades Skyway will be at stake, and we need you there. One day before the 60th Anniversary of Everglades National Park, the Corps of Engineers will show state and federal representatives that its plan for opening up the heart of...
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Kristina Trotta of the Sierra Club and Everglades Skyway has sent the following message: The Skyway campaign has been building and the Coalition is growing every day. Our most recent endorsers are the City of Miami Gardens, Town of Miami Lakes, ChamberSouth, the Miami Lakes and Green Thumb Garden Clubs and the Builders Association of South Florida, bringing our list of supporters up to 36! This...
Read MoreSupport the Skyway Thursday at 2pm
The Everglades Skyway (we’ve discussed it before) is an important issue. A portion of Tamiami Trail that cuts across the Everglades needs to be raised to allow the water to flow through this River of Grass. Without water flow under Tamiami Trail, clean water cannot enter the southern Everglades or the National Park, as the road currently acts like a dam for water naturally moving south. My...
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Last Thursday the Everglades Skyway Summit was held at the Biltmore Hotel. I was supposed to be there, but in the end wound up missing the event. Why the Skyway is important, from Build-the-Skyway.com: Tamiami Trail (US highway 41) cuts through Shark River Slough, one of the Everglades’ deepest and most important water passageways. Scientists say this 11-mile section of the 1928 road must be...
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