How does the Plan benefit Everglades National Park?
The Plan will directly benefit Everglades National Park in several ways. Most importantly, the Plan greatly improves the quality, quantity, timing, and distribution of flows into the Park. In addition, more than 240 miles of canals and levees within the Everglades will be removed to reestablish the natural sheetflow of water through the Park. That change will support the return of the large nesting rookeries of wading birds to the Park and the recovery of several endangered species such as the wood stork, snail kite and Cape Sable seaside sparrow.
