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FYI the Caloosahatchee is man made and the stupid f**king crabs that everyone is so worried about (including you) just walk up and down stream to where the salinity is the proper level for them. I believe that the primary motivation was agricultural, but I'm not certain. But they do grow a lot of tomatoes on land that used to be prime Everglades. The "primary motivation" was to protect human life and property, not to create and bio world where lying junk-science freaks could play God with wildlife.

Since you know so much about the area where I live and work, could you define "prime Everglades" for me?

Did you rknow that they built your house on what was once "prime woodlands"? Sorry to break that news to you, hope you were sitting down.

[cogitator]

The "primary motivation" was to protect human life and property, not to create and bio world where lying junk-science freaks could play God with wildlife.

I thought that the primary motivation, truly, was to provide a regulated water supply in a region where the water supply had a highly seasonal (wet season/dry season) pattern. In so doing, it disturbed the natural cycle in the Everglades. That's common knowledge, and I didn't think it was controversial.

Since you know so much about the area where I live and work, could you define "prime Everglades" for me?

Sure. It's where the flow out of Okeechobee to Florida Bay was sheet flow, not channelized and canal-ized.

Did you rknow that they built your house on what was once "prime woodlands"? Sorry to break that news to you, hope you were sitting down.

I believe I knew that. What's happening with Okeechobee and environs (and what has happened over the past decades) merely demonstrates that it's very difficult to entirely regulate and control a natural system; nature still has a way of mucking things up.