Everglades National Park Comments Due Friday at Midnight!

May 15, 2009

Actually that's midnight mountain time. The National Park Services

Center in Denver, Colorado hosts the servers so (if you're on the east coast) you get a couple of

hours of extra time.Here's the website for submitting comments -http://parkplanning.nps.gov/commentForm.cfm?parkID=374 & projectID=11170 & documentId=26021As the previous email on the topic explained, the Sierra Club is firmly behind ALTERNATIVE 4There

are lots of environmental/wildlife issues going on at the moment and perhaps a

recreational management plan for an area that's already protected as a

national park may not seem like a high priority. On the other hand,

it's areas like Everglades National Park which are at the core of the Sierra

Club's mission. If the largest cause of death for endangered manatees

inside the park is powerboat collisions, if the once outstanding wading

bird populations and fishery of the park are only a tiny fraction of

what they once were, and if the vast carpets of seagrass which once

covered huge swaths of Florida Bay in enormous living carpets and are

now being sliced and diced by boat hulls and propellers (the word is

fragmentation), cannot be protected, then there is little hope for

ecosystems that are not national parks or dedicated federal wilderness