They build bridges with federal funds 

 out to our barrier islands. The last 

 data I was showing you were purchased 

 and actually paid for by the fisher- 

 men in Franklin County, because I've 

 not been able to get any sustained 

 federal funding for any of this re- 

 search. The one sustained group that 

 has funded me has been a county that 

 is considered to have the poorest per 

 capita income in the state. I think 

 our worst enemies are right here in 

 Washington, D.C. 



Question : How do you propose to stop 

 or slow down the influx of people to 

 Florida? 



Answer : I don't want to slow them 

 down. I want to put them in the 

 right places. You could put a lot of 

 people in that valley and not affect 

 a thing. 



Question : You talk like it's up to 

 the county commissions to regulate 

 what happens. 



Answer : The point is though, I'm not 

 trying to make it overly simple. 

 There are outside agencies that are 

 working, and there are also laws. 

 These laws apply to these systems . 

 If you have enough information on how 

 this system works it makes it a 

 little more difficult to destroy the 

 system. I don't say it won't be 

 destroyed. You can make it difficult 



if you have the answers already in 

 the scientific literature. We're 

 winning cases. They won that Red 

 River thing because he had some in- 

 formation and it was bought by the 

 court. But you can't go in and say, 

 "I'm an environmentalist, and I love 

 this system, and I want it to go on 

 the way it is." Or "I'm so and so 

 from the Fish and Wildlife Service, 

 and I'm a big man in Washington, 

 and I want this system to stay the 

 way it is. You can't do that. It 

 doesn't work that way. 



Question : You've got a lot of 

 answers on the upper Apalachacola 

 and I'm impressed. How can you 

 translate that into instruction or 

 direction at the decision level in 

 the remote area if it's affecting 

 your particular aspect of the sys- 

 tem? That's the problem we're 

 facing. I had to go out and talk to 

 HUD and tell HUD what I want. 



Answer: Each group has to solve that 

 problem separately because each situ- 

 ation is different. In our area we 

 have established an estuarine sanc- 

 tuary there. Through the sanctuary, 

 we're now going to get new programs. 

 We're going to apply them all the way 

 up to Atlanta and make sure that the 

 people all along that tri-river sys- 

 tem know what's going on. 



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