
Nearly a century ago a number of canals were gouged across the very southern tip of Florida in a place called Cape Sable. In recent years, work has been done to plug those canals, which have been serving as conduits for salty water from the Gulf of Mexico and Florida Bay to move inland and, basically, slowly poison the native vegetation.
Late this year work is expected to begin to plug the last remaining unplugged canal. It's not easy work, in part because of all the mosquitoes and in part due to the fact that the work is in official wilderness in Everglades National Park.
On Sunday in National Parks Traveler's podcast, Dr. Jerry Lorenz, who directs Audubon's Everglades Science Center, discusses the task at hand and the benefits expected to flow from it.
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