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subject[0][5] = "Audubon scientist Paul Gray's colossally big problem is Lake Okeechobee - the sickly hub of the Everglades.  But the scientist might as well be assessing his own situation.  His airboat is colossally stuck in this turbid lake.";

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subject[1][3] = "Paul Gray:";
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subject[1][5] = 'I\'m going to stomp some stuff down.';

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subject[2][5] = "Gray jumps overboard into the thicket.  Shoulder to hull, he pushes; his binoculars swing with each heave-ho.  The boat doesn't budge.  Incredibly, a 'gator sticks around to stare at the commotion:  sideshow or side snack?";

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subject[3][2] = "© Jill Heinerth"; 
subject[3][3] = "Paul Gray:";
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subject[3][5] = "Look at these guys!  Golly!";

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subject[4][5] = "To an untrained eye, the lake seems to have in it even more 'gators than phosphorus - the most problematic pollutant plaguing the Everglades.  Gray is determined to find a vestige of hope in this woeful body of water.  He's seeking a hidden rookery where wading birds are breeding.";

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subject[5][5] = "Using a GPS, he managed to maneuver close enough to detect the call of nearby nesting birds.  Gray is so close, yet so far, in his current state of stuck-ness - not unlike Okeechobee itself.";

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subject[6][2] = "© Karst Productions, Inc."; 
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subject[6][5] = "For far too long the entire Everglades has been stuck with either too much or too little water - dirty water, at that--in the wrong places at the wrong times.  The lake, in particular, has been stuck with tons of phosphorus; and stuck being studied.";

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subject[7][3] = "Paul Gray:";
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subject[7][5] = "The state's under a mandate to meet the water quality, the phosphorus goal by the end of this year for the Everglades - ten parts per billion - and it doesn't look like we're going to make it.  And, the lake's in the worst shape ever.";

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subject[8][5] = "Gray is spinning his wheels - or prop, as the case may be.  He thinks nothing in the Everglades will work quite right unless the lake is restored, and he believes that more attention should be paid to Lake Okeechobee.  Of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan's $7.8 billion budget, only half-a-billion is earmarked for the watershed north of the lake where most of the pollution comes from.  It also happens to be where innovative solutions can have the most impact.";

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subject[9][2] = "&copy Jill Heinerth"; 
subject[9][3] = "Paul Gray:";
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subject[9][5] = "One of the big goals of the Everglades restoration is we're going to try to build more storage back into the watershed with reservoirs and with filter marshes, and trying to work with land owners to see if we can get them to hold more water on their property and reverse some of the past drainage.  And, maybe trying to figure out how we can calculate how to pay people to be water managers for us.  If we're going to spend billions on reservoirs… well, if we could also spend money just paying people to hold water on their land then maybe we can keep some of these ranchers on their land by giving them another source of income and doing ecosystem services for society.";

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subject[10][3] = "Paul Gray:";
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subject[10][5] = "Chopping wood is not one of the sounds of Okeechobee; beating the poor tree to death.";

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subject[11][5] = "A stubborn willow blocks any forward motion -- and forward is the only direction an airboat can go.";

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subject[12][5] = "Like Gray, this lake has nowhere to go but forward.  There's no going back to the time when it was allowed to spill over its southern rim into a 40-mile-wide, 100-mile-long swath of Sawgrass.  For 40 years, the Hoover Dike has effectively girdled Okeechobee and desiccated the Everglades.";

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subject[13][3] = "Paul Gray:";
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subject[13][5] = "So if we took the Hoover Dike out now, basically, the Everglades isn't there to hold the lake in anymore, and it would drain the lake.  So the thing that killed the lake, the Hoover Dike, also now is needed to keep the lake a lake; it's a curse.";

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subject[14][5] = "Paul heaves the willow and clambers aboard.  He's sweaty, scratched, spattered with muck . . . and still smiling.";

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subject[15][3] = "Paul Gray:";
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subject[15][5] = "It's better than being in the office! Cross our fingers; maybe we're good!";

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subject[16][5] = "Triumphant, Gray scoots out across the lake where an alarming lack of bulrushes poke halfheartedly above turbid water. Also missing:  the bass fishermen who once flocked here.";

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subject[17][3] = "Paul Gray:";
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subject[17][5] = "What's there to fish for?";

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subject[18][5] = "Lake O is still stuck, just like Gray was, just a minute ago -- seemingly stuck for good, if not for sweat and ingenuity.";

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subject[19][5] = "Everybody's decided we need to fix it and there seems to be a lot of unity.  When we get the price tags for these projects, they are just sky-high.  It's causing a lot of consternation among the agencies who don't feel like they have enough money, and among citizens who want this fixed.  And, you know, they say, you know, I need it fixed now!  I'm tired of it! And, it's like, guys:  it's going to take us decades to build the things we need to build.";