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September 24, 2025 -Ridge and Slough Landscapes Workshop

ridge and slough Restoration science (dAY 2)

Science Coordination Group (SCG) Sponsored Workshop

tuesday, september 24, 2025
time: 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM


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WORKSHOP HANDOUTS AND PRESENTATIONS:

  1. Draft Agenda

  2. Everglades pre-drainage hydrology and vegetation

  3. Current vegetation and drivers of vegetation dynamics

  4. What we’ve learned about Tree Island ecology/water management linkages from the LILA project

  5. Tree Island Performance Measure status

  6. Microtopography and the patterns of change at small and large spatial scales

  7. The role of high flows and periodic disturbances in forming sustainable ridge and slough

  8. The evolving vision of how pre-drainage restoration goals connect to incremental operational updates

  9. Periodicity of hydrologic patterns in WCA-3A and SRS, focusing of before/after lessons learned from COP, and where we are going with CEPP 1.0