/ Erik Stabenau, on left and leaning forward, and Damon Rondeau, driving the park service airboat, are supervisory hydrologists with Everglades National Park. The provided a tour of Shark River Slough, observing Tamiami Trail bridging and water-monitoring stations. The historic rise of South Florida sugarcane farming turned the giant Lake Okeechobee into a toilet for polluted waters draining from as far as Central Florida and flushing ruinously via canals to coastal estuaries at Fort Myers and Stuart. Part 4 of Special Series There is a concrete sign of hope that the imperiled wet prairies, ...