Contents
Introduction
One Change Happens
A Fateful Discovery
The Landscape
Preserving the Landscape
The End Is the Beginning
Two The Road to Recovery
Make It So and Make It Quick
Three Strikes or a Homerun?
Three Who’s Who?
Four Round Robin
The Community, County, and State
The County Responds to Community Concerns
The County, State, Conservation Groups,
and the National Parks
The County, Conservation Groups, Parks,
and, finally, Washington
Are You In?
Covering All Bases
Who’s Up?
Conservation Groups at Bat
Washington’s Turn
The Final Inning
The County Steals a Base
A Long Throw from the Outfield
Umpire’s Call
Five All the Right People in All the Right Places
Follow the Money
An Ageless Issue
Six The Supplemental EnvironmentalImpact Statement
The Team
The Process
Alternatives Analysis
Environmental Consequences
Noise about Noise
Seven This Is It?
No Stone Unturned
Now What?
Persevere
Eight In the Hands of Politics
Back in South Florida
Nine Florida Counts
After the Election
Epilogue
Appendices
A. Timeline
B. People, Organizations, and Groups
C. Full Text of the Record of Decision
