[daniel1212]

As for longtime commercial airboat tour operators along the Trail — Coopertown, Everglades Safari Park, and Gator Park — the park proposes to buy their properties, turn them into concessionaires and confine their operations to a “front country zone” of about 10,000 to 11,000 acres just south of the Trail. If the park’s preferred plan is adopted sometime next year, then the rest of the East Everglades — more than 80,000 acres — would be designated as wilderness with no mechanical propulsion — even bicycles — allowed.

Park planner Fred Herling says the aim is to strike a balance between the desires of airboaters and other visitors such as paddlers and hikers. - http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/12/27/3838829/iconic-airboats-wont-be-part-of.html#emlnl=Five_Minute_Herald#storylink=cpy

Sad.

[GladesGuru]

HERL ALERT! Park planner Fred Herling says the aim is to strike a balance between the desires of airboaters and other visitors such as paddlers and hikers." \Herling's statement is classic bureaucrapic bafflegab and is both deliberately deceptive and misleading. Most all of that area is unsuitable for walking or kayaking. That nasty ParcPerson knows it, too. For an excellent video on ParcMan, Google "Big Park". www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xvAB6DAhtM‎

[tet68]

I’m just curious but when an airliner crashes in the
middle of that 80,000 acres of swamp wilderness, how
do they propose to reach the crash site?