After five years
of legal battles, the Florida Biodiversity Project forced the NPS into a
final ORV Management Plan for Big Cypress National Preserve. The following
hardened trail (rock road) is the result. The trail plan will be
implemented
over the ten years and is to be 400 miles long. It will cost the tax
payers about 3 million dollars in 2002 and an additional 2 million dollars
in year 2003. The following pictures were taken along
the first portion of the hardened trail. It now takes 45 minutes to reach
the recesses of the Big Cypress Swamp, that used to take about 2 hours to
reach. This is certainly not what the Sportsmen of the Big Cypress
National Preserve ever wanted to have happen.
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