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subject[0][3] = "Billy Causey:";
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subject[0][5] = "We just idled through the canals, and we had to do that very slowly, but now I'm going to get up on a plane; so if everyone would go ahead and hang on, and I'm going to go ahead and kick it up on a plane right now.";

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subject[1][5] = "Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Director Billy Causey is kicking up his boat, accelerating into the mangrove backcountry of Florida Bay.  But he might as well be referring to the way in which the state of Florida is stepping up the pace on Everglades restoration projects.  If the goal in the Everglades is to do the best with what's left over, there's an edgy awareness that what's left over is less every day.";

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subject[2][3] = "Billy Causey:";
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subject[2][5] = "It's this little etching away at the environment, a little bit at a time, that we don't realize until we step back and look at the cumulative impact of what it leaves us with.";

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subject[3][5] = "Causey steers his boat toward an island of red mangrove and cuts the motor.  Out here, it's hard to recognize Causey as the manager an ecosystem that's a focal point in the eight billion dollar restoration of the Everglades.";

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subject[4][3] = "Billy Causey:";
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subject[4][5] = "Everglades restoration is absolutely essential to maintaining and improving the health of the South Florida ecosystem, and particularly, America's only living barrier coral reef.";

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subject[5][2] = "© Pat Lynch / SFWMD"; 
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subject[5][5] = "The Everglades no longer delivers enough fresh water to the Bay, which routinely is saltier than ocean water, even during wet years.  They also want to develop a more natural estuary-like condition in the bay rather than allow it to continue to change into a marine lagoon.";

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subject[6][2] = "© Florida Keys NMS"; 
subject[6][3] = "Billy Causey:";
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subject[6][5] = "I used to go out to Loo Key, and Loo key is my very favorite place on the Earth.  And, I've always enjoyed the spur-and-groove reef formation, I've enjoyed the spectacular panorama of corals and the colorful tropical fish in moving, moving Technicolor.  It's just a phenomenal place to visit.  But, I go out there now, and the corals have declined significantly in the last over three decades that I have lived here in the Keys.";

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subject[7][2] = "© Karst Productions, Inc."; 
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subject[7][5] = "Like in the Kissimmee River Basin, Lake Okeechobee and the Water Conservation Areas, there's too much water -- water high in nutrients, no less -- at the wrong times in the wrong places in Florida Bay.  The system is broken.";

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subject[8][2] = "© Florida Keys NMS"; 
subject[8][3] = "Billy Causey:";
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subject[8][5] = "When you have 25,000 septic tanks, even though they are operating at their very best capacity, we still know nutrients get into our local canal waters.  We've learned from a lot of mistakes, locally.  And now, we're trying to undo those mistakes.";

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subject[9][2] = "© Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute"; 
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subject[9][5] = "The water quality issues that plague Florida Bay are made worse by the real and measurable effects of climate change.  Substances that make their way into the bay -- nitrogen and phosphorus, for example -- meet up with rising water temperatures.  Causey explains it's basic science:  add chemicals, turn up the Bunsen burner, and get a reaction.  The reaction has not been good.";

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subject[10][2] = "© Florida Keys NMS"; 
subject[10][3] = "Billy Causey:";
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subject[10][5] = "Without a doubt, climate change is, and is going to impact the Everglades and all of our marine systems as we know them.  Sea surface temps are increasing.  What we can say is, coral reefs, which have existed in a very narrow range of conditions, where the temperatures have very…seldom gotten over 85 degrees Fahrenheit, are now, every year, experiencing higher and higher temperatures.";

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subject[11][2] = "© MODIS Rapid Response Project / NASA"; 
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subject[11][5] = "Coral reefs depend not only on Everglades restoration but also on dozens of environmental projects as faraway as the Great Lakes.  In fact, 38 states drain into the Keys neighbor, the Gulf of Mexico.";

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subject[12][3] = "Billy Causey:";
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subject[12][5] = "What's affecting this ecosystem as we defined it, was that the ecosystem begins in the Kissimmee chain of lakes; it goes through Lake Okeechobee; it includes the Everglades Agricultural Area; it includes both sides of the system from the east coast over to the Gulf Coast.  And, once we defined that ecosystem, we realized we were ready to step out in very bold ways and define the restoration objectives to get this system fixed.";

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subject[13][2] = "© Karst Productions, Inc."; 
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subject[13][5] = "The economic reality of degrading Florida Bay is grim.  Millions of tourists might stop flocking here because 90 percent of the wading birds are gone, or because the fishing's no good.";

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subject[14][3] = "Billy Causey:";
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subject[14][5] = "Tourism is our number-one industry, and we get over three million tourists every year.  Now, the tourists coming down here spend $1.2 billion.";

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subject[15][2] = "© John Halas / Florida Keys NMS"; 
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subject[15][5] = "In addition to tourism, the Pink Shrimp industry, as well as recreational and commercial fishing, all depend on the health of this mangrove--sea grass--coral reef ecosystem being restored.";

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subject[16][3] = "Billy Causey:";
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subject[16][5] = "If you look at this resource you can look at the biological-ecological importance, you can look at the importance of the diversity of this area, but if that doesn't appeal to you, then maybe look at the bottom line of dollars:  We cannot afford to lose this resource.  Economically, it is what really drives a lot of the economic engine for South Florida as well as the Florida Keys.";

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subject[17][5] = "But the investment he wants people to consider is not just economic, but an investment in the future as well.";

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subject[18][3] = "Billy Causey:";
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subject[18][5] = "I am now investing, not in my generation, not even the generation right behind mine.  But, I'm looking back at my grandchildren.  I'm looking at my grandchildren and I'm hoping that some day they'll go to Loo Key reef and see the beauty that I saw there in the '60's and '70's.  And, I think we can do that, and I think it's going to take a period of time to be able to fit together all the pieces of this puzzle that we have strewn all over the place.";