This is an environment where nature is as highly managed as the built environment, and where the strange natural beauty of the land has become entangled with the brutal scars of past decisions. This is a Florida beyond the beaches, deep into the interior of the state. Here, the extinction of animals and plants, problematic saltwater infusion, fresh water shortage, and pollution from agriculture and climate warming changes are issues that are as much encapsulated in the word Everglades as are swamp, sawgrass and alligators. How to solve the competing and conflicting pressures upon this ecosystem that has lost any sense of autonomy is a question for which there are no clear answers.
