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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Comments on A Multiscale Approach to Seagrass Recovery in Tampa Bay, Florida Greening et al. 2011--Ecological Restoration 29(12): 8293. reening et al. (2011) mention 2 current objectives of the seagrass management program for Tampa Bay: 1) protect the current 12,000 ha of seagrass from damage and decline; and 2) restore an additional approximately 3,380 ha of seagrass in the Bay. Passing reference is made to a third objective that had to proceed these two, and that was the reduction in discharges of nutrients to Tampa Bay that along with other stressors had reduced seagrass cover to about 8,000 ha in 1982. Several references are made (on pages 82 and 8485) to this effort being led by the "research and restoration community" without appropriate reference in professional opinion to the summary by Lewis and others (1998) (senior author Greening was a co-author) describing in some detail the role of citizens and citizen led organizations that prodded the local political community to seek funding for a federal water quality study (Federal Water Pollution Control Administration 1969) and later matching funds (75% of the necessary $100 million) from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to allow construction of
Ecological Restoration – University of Wisconsin Press
Published: Feb 23, 2012
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