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The article reports on the move of the community leaders in Miami, Florida to let their political leaders know the need to conserve nature and their environmental resources in consideration with the 2015 general elections in the U.S.

Focuses on the work of landscape architect and preservationist Charles Birnbaum. Discussion of how may significant historic landscapes across the United States are abandoned and neglected; Focus on the Nations Bank Park Plaza in Tampa, Florida; Proposal for a museum expansion and parking overhaul at the park; Comments on the issue from Richard Moe, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation; Other landscapes designed by significant landscape architects at risk, such as Freeway Park in Seattle.

Gov. Charlie Crist has signed a growth-management bill supported by business and development interests but opposed by environmentalists and local governments. Mr. Crist, a Republican, said the bill would help stimulate Florida's sagging construction industry by making it easier to build projects in urban areas and extending the life of existing development permits for two years. Environmentalists had urged a veto. They argued that the law would encourage sprawl because it too broadly defined urban areas where growth restrictions would be eased. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Florida's proposed purchase of nearly 300 square miles of land for Everglades restoration moved forward this week when water managers who would oversee the property endorsed the state's $1.75 billion offer. But even as most environmentalists here continue to cheer about the acquisition, skeptics have identified complications that they fear will keep the Everglades from being saved. The state, say some hydrologists, federal officials and environmentalists, has bet a huge sum on oft-fertilized farmland that could take at least a decade and billions of dollars to rehabilitate [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reports that a Miami, Florida judge has dismissed a criminal case against the environmental group Greenpeace in midtrial.