Restoration of the Kissimmee River, Florida: Water quality impacts from canal backfilling,” Environmental Monitoring and Assessment - Koebel, Jones, et al. - 1999Joseph W, Koebel J R, Bradley Let al. 1999. Restoration of the Kissimmee river, Florida: water quality impacts from canal backfilling...
The composition of seed banks of areas on the drained Kissimmee River floodplain (Florida, USA) that are currently pasture and formerly had been wet prairie, broadleaf marsh, and wetland shrub communities was compared to that of seed banks of areas that have extant stands of these communities....
Geomorphic Evaluation of Cross Sections in the Kissimmee River, Florida, 1928 to 1960 The Kissimmee River underwent channelization during the 1960?s. During the past two decades, river managers have begun restoring the river to a semblance of its historical counterpart. Part of the restoration effor...
The Kissimmee River Basin flood control project, completed in 1971, had a negative impact on the ecosystem of the Kissimmee River and the adjacent floodplain by reducing floodplain inundation. This numerical model study investigated the expected inundation amounts associated with two restoration ...
The Kissimmee River Project in Florida is one of the most successful river restoration experiences in the United States. 167 km of the river was canalized to control floods in the 1960s, and since 2001, part of the main restoration waterway and flow control structures have been removed. This...
(AP) — The Everglades in South Florida were once about twice the size of New Jersey. Wildlife was abundant and water flowed freely from the Kissimmee River to Lake Okeechobee to the Florida Bay. But decades of engineering projects partitioned and drained the water, invasive species have ...
The number of river restoration projects in the United States has increased exponentially in the last decade, and expenditures on small and midsize projects alone (e.g., excluding projects like the Kissimmee or the Colorado) average > $1 billion a year [Bernhardt et al., 2005]. Rivers are...
Restoration of the Kissimmee River : A conceptual model of past and present fish communities and its consequences for evaluating restoration success Efforts to restore fish communities of the Kissimmee River will require carefully defined criteria for assessing success. A goal of regaining communities m...
EVERGLADES, Fla. (AP) — The Everglades in South Florida were once about twice the size of New Jersey. Wildlife was abundant and water flowed freely from the Kissimmee River to Lake Okeechobee to the Florida Bay. But decades of engineering projects parti
America’s Everglades is a unique patchwork of wildlife habitat all connected by one thing: water. This slow-moving, rain-fed “river of grass” once covered roughly 11,000 square miles from headwaters in the Kissimmee Chain of Lakes, spilling over Lake Okeechobee’s brim all the way south ...