Florida's Vanishing Wetlands
and the Failure of No Net Loss

Selby Public Library, Sarasota


April 30, 2009 5 p.m.
Selby Library, Sarasota
1331 1st St, Sarasota FL

Discussion of "Paving Paradise" in the town where a small environmental group called ManaSota-88 launched the first thorough investigation of whether wetland mitigation was working in Florida (it wasn't). For more information on this event, call (941) 861-1100.

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When is wetland mitigation not really mitigation?

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