Corps Tries To Balance Sparrows And Communities

A federal plan to protect endangered sparrows in the Everglades National Park would increase water levels in a key canal and remove a levee. Area farmers and communities oppose the plan.

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July 25, 2001, 2:00 PM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"The Army Corps defends its plan, calling it a compromise...Environmental groups contend the Corps has delivered both too much and too little water to the sparrow in past. The Miccosukee Tribe charges the Corps with illegally flooding its sovereign lands. State water managers accuse environmental groups of a 'single species' focus that endangers other threatened species..."

Thanks to Sheryl Stolzenberg

FULL STORY: Wetting sparrow habitat has neighbors sputtering

Monday, July 23, 2001 in The Miami Herald

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