VP Joe Biden visits Everglades National Park, Fl., touting restoration projects - pics

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Vice President Joe Biden, left foreground, accompanied by Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla. , center foreground, and Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla. , right, foreground, arrive at the Safari Hammock area in the Everglades National Park, Fla. , Monday, April 23, 2012.


Vice President Joe Biden, left foreground, accompanied by Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla. , center foreground, and Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla. , right, foreground, gestures as he answers a question to a reporter upon his arrival at the Safari Hammock area in the Everglades National Park, Fla. , Monday, April 23, 2012.




Vice President Joe Biden, left, accompanied by Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla. , center foreground, and Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla. , right, takes off his sunglasses at the request of a reporter at the Safari Hammock area in the Everglades National Park, Fla. , Monday, April 23, 2012.





Shannon Estenoz, director of Everglades Restoration Initiatives, left, talks to Vice President Joe Biden, center, and Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla. , at the Safari Hammock area in the Everglades National Park, Fla. , Monday, April 23, 2012.



Vice President Joe Biden gestures as he speaks at the Everglades National Park, Fla. , Monday, April 23, 2012.



Vice President Joe Biden, accompanied by Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla. , center, and Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla. , speaks at the Everglades National Park, Fla. , Monday, April 23, 2012.



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Published: 2:44 pm Monday, Apr. 23, 2012
Biden in Everglades,

By JENNIFER KAY | Associated Press

Vice President Joe Biden has taken what he says was his first airboat ride, touring a swath of the Everglades while touting the benefits of a federally funded restoration project to restore the flow of water.

Biden boated past a bridge project west of Miami that will elevate a cross-Everglades highway that long dammed water flowing through Everglades National Park. Environmentalists say the project will improve wetlands habitat for alligators, wading birds and other wildlife.

The project was approved in 2000 but construction was only expedited after years of legal challenges using stimulus money under President Barack Obama's administration, park officials say.

Biden brought his granddaughter along on the airboat tour and also was joined by U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson and U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings, two Florida Democrats.

Read more here: http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2012/04/23/2040558/biden-in-everglades-touting-restoration.html#storylink=cpy

[liberal N proud]

1. I have always wanted to take an air boat into the swamp.