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Environmental Confederation of Southwest Florida, Inc.

Protecting and Defending the Integrity of the Environment

Hot Issues:

The Caloosahatchee River has been designated as the 7th most Endangered River in the Nation!!

Read the American Rivers Association 2006 Endangered Rivers Report

Visit Riverwatch to learn more about the Caloosahatchee and how it can be helped

Save Centennial Park, Downtown Fort Myers, FL

Throughout the nation, the National Parks Service has begun to sell off “excess” preserve land, removing this land from public access and placing it in the hands of private development.

Friends of the Riverfront, a coalition of private citizens and public interest organizations from Fort Myers, FL, have hired an attorney to stop the conversion of Centennial Park property from public space to private development. This community park is home to numerous festivals and gatherings from art and music to farmers markets and the Edison Festival of Lights picnic.

More Information:

· NEWS! - WCI has PULLED OUT , making way for a project that protects public waterfront and supports the downtown revitalization plans; the City Council is supportive of reevaluating the needs of this special waterfront district

· Press Release regarding this project

· ECOSWF’s letter of support

· A copy of the letter sent to the National Parks Service

· Second letter, April 7, 2006

· Watch the NBC2 cover story on this issue

· The Vue is refunding investor’s deposits due to the stall in the project

· Sign the Save Centennial Park! Petition

· Visit the Lee Trust’s effort to protect the Exhibition Hall within the park

· Read “Paving over Parkland,” an article on how this issue is affecting other localities