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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.
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:
- 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.
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