The Orlando Environmental Restoration Project That Is Proving a Broken Urban Ecosystem Can Be Healed — If Anyone Is Willing to Try
Karel Dekar
The strip-mall geometry eventually starts to thin as you drive west out of Orlando along State Road 429, past the outlet stores and the unfinished subdivisions with their hopeful Spanish-tile rooftops. The land becomes accessible. Palmetto thickets, pine flatwoods, and the occasional sandhill crane prowling through a drainage ditch. Here, Orange County recently used a...