Posted by Joel Rosenthal on January 01, 1970 at 00:00:00
SFWMD is a public agency, and as such is subject to public pressure. When they tore out the remaining Australian pines and other trees along the Snapper Creek Canal behind our neighborhood and destroyed a beautiful canopy, after Hurricane Andrew, most of the neighbors joined forces to lobby the Agency to restore the habitat and some canopy, rather than leaving it a barren drainage ditch. We collaborated on a xeriscape that produced a lovely canopy and habitat for birds and other wildlife that would have otherwise never happened. If you think the agency is being unreasonable in their closures, then I suggest you organize, mobilize, lobby(yes they have public meetings in Palm Beach), and bring whatever pressure you can upon them to improve access.At this point, has anyone even made their grievance known to staff and the SFWMD commissioners? I doubt the commissioners and staff read the Birdboard, but they do read the Herald, and they do have phones--sometimes it is amazing what you can get done by starting a dialogue---