The Everglades restoration is among the largest aquatic restoration efforts to ever occur, with dozens of projects spanning 18,000 square miles from Orlando to Biscayne Bay, and from Florida Bay to the Caloosahatchee River.Dozens of the projects were discussed in sessions at the year’s Everglades Coalition annual gathering, which brought together the more than 50 nonprofits working toward a restored River of Grass for a weekend of panels on completed projects, lessons learned, and what else still needs to be accomplished.
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The University of South Florida Department of Anthropology has begun the final steps in a long process to return the ancient ancestors of Native Americans, previously used for research, to the Seminole Tribe of Florida.