Thousands of square miles of sawgrass is what the author terms ecological richness. If you really want the area to have ecological richness, drain the fetid swamp dry.
Bad idea. The Everglades provides S FL with most of it’s water. No need to build between Miami and Naples. FL has 10 years of housing inventory anyway and too many people.
Not one word mentioned about the melaleuuca trees. They suck up all the water and are a pest taking over thousands of acres. Idiots planted they to try to drain the everglades.