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...House has already passeda bill that would require federal agencies to compensate landowners when federal wetland and endangered species regulations drive down their property values...
...affect areas smaller than five acres. The plan also requires more scientific study before declaring species in danger and gives states and local officials more discretion. The House passed a tougher bill Friday by a vote of 277-141 that would require federal agencies to compensate landowners when federal wetland and endangered species regulations drive down their property values...
...acre upon acre of them, stretching as far as the eye can see. Cattails are taking over the eastern Everglades, crowding out the saw grass and choking the algae at the base of the ecosystem's food chain. Cattails now cover 20,000 acres of what was once pristine wetland. Grown thick and tall (some more than 8 ft. high) in the phosphorus-filled runoff of nearby sugar and vegetable plantations, they stand as a symbol of the decades of mismanagement that have brought the famous region to the brink of environmental collapse...
...ecosystem in question once covered the entire tip of Florida -- about 4 ! million acres of wetland stretching from Lake Okeechobee in the north to the Gulf of Mexico in the south. For centuries it was treated like a huge swamp to be drained, farmed and, ultimately, paved. Now the acreage has shrunk to 2 million, and what remains is under pressure from a population growing by 600 people...
Back-to-natives gardening doesn't require a lush suburban spread; tiny Edens can sprout within the biggest cities. Ten years ago, video producer Jack Schmidling began constructing a woodland, a prairie and a wetland in the small backyard of his Chicago bungalow. Now his miniature ecosystems attract a wealth of winged wildlife, from birds to butterflies. While Schmidling is delighted, some of his neighbors are not. Although the enclave is concealed behind a high fence, they have reported him to the city, charging that his secret garden is an overgrown mess...