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Final Project
As the capstone
assignment for this course, each student is expected to complete
a final project. This term's final project involves
writing a 10-15 page, referenced paper addressing one or more
issues associated with the Everglades
Restudy & Restoration. |
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Students
can reach a specially created Everglades page by clicking on the
picture of the alligator found below. Students will develop
their project paper around one of the following themes:
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- Describe the history
of how the Florida Everglades habitat came to be destroyed.
- Describe what
what will need to be done to restore any one of the following systems
in the Everglades: The Caloosahatchee River, The Kissimmee River, Lake
Okeechobee, The Everglades Proper, Florida Bay, the Florida Aquifer.
- Describe the impact
of the degradation of the Everglades system upon specific fauna &
flora that are inhabitants of this system.
- Explain the policy
& political processes by which the Everglades Restoration efforts
have moved. Be sure to identify explain significant legislation,
rules and findings relevant to the historical restoration of the system.
- Explain how development
throughout South Florida impacts the Everglades system.
- Describe how agriculture
in South Florida has made an impact upon the Everglades system.
- Outline the key
components of the Everglades Restudy effort, and identify key players
in the process and their positions on the restudy.
- Critique plans
to store water from the Everglades, to include the construction of impoundments
to store water and storing water in the aquifer. Address issues
of how the aquifers function and the role that the Everglades plays
in putting water into the Everglades.
- Describe how Everglades
restoration can be paid for, as well as approaches to mitigating development
throughout Southwest Florida.
- Make a presentation
of threatened and endangered plant and animals of the Everglades region.
- The Everglades
represents one form of "wetlands." Identify the types of wetlands
that one might find throughout the U.S. and compare & contrast the
Everglades system to other wetland types.
- Or??? Have an awesome
idea....Ask
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