All of the sugar companies were subsidized. Once the organic soil had be metabolized by bacteria, and gone up into the atmosphere as CO2 & H2o, the state of FloriDUH paid them off for the basically bare rock AND allowed them to farm the last bits of soil until they, too, disappear.
“My country ‘tis of thee,
Sweet land of subsidy!”
GladesGuru,
It sickens me as I fly from the Stuart Area to say Everglades City while watching them burn off the sugar cane fields.
Where is the e.p.a. on this? Paid off?
South Florida Water management does nothing but provide water for large growers of cane and citrus. Large polluters.