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But he's some of the very few. There was a time  when you could go within a 5 mile radius and spot around 200 alligators. We'll be lucky  if we see half a dozen today.\\\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Parker Priest, Airboat driver\u003cbr/\u003eThat is because nature's delicate balance has been thrown out of kilter.\u003cbr/\u003eRun-off from farm fertilisers has altered the vegetation.\u003cbr/\u003eRun-off rich in phosphorus. \u003cbr/\u003eThese cattails thrive on phosphorus which chokes out the native grass.\u003cbr/\u003eCattails crowd the water so thickly, too little remains for animals and other plants.\u003cbr/\u003eFor people like Parker Priest restoring the Everglades is the most important issue in  this presidential election. \u003cbr/\u003eBill Clinton has vowed to clean it up and he's got Parker's vote.\u003cbr/\u003e\\\"To me being a part of the Everglades all my life, anybody that wants to clean up the  Everglades got my vote for sure.\\\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Parker Priest, Airboat driver\u003cbr/\u003eEgrets endure the smoke in the hope of catching lunch as sugar cane is fired.\u003cbr/\u003eThis is the beginning of harvest season for cane growers and it could be the most  expensive crop ever.\u003cbr/\u003eFor these are the farmers who are being blamed for killing the Everglades.\u003cbr/\u003eAnd now they face the prospect of paying 900 (m) million dollars to restore it.\u003cbr/\u003eAs well as voting for their next president on November 5, Floridians will vote on  Amendment 4 - a proposal by the Save Our Everglades group to impose a penny tax on  every pound of sugar harvested near the Everglades.\u003cbr/\u003eThe growers say they are already paying millions to clean up their act and it is working -  phosphorus levels are down.\u003cbr/\u003eIn sugar country the view of Amendment 4 is clear.\u003cbr/\u003e\\\"We are the only people right now that are paying for Everglades restoration, to clean  our water up. To single us out for all the problems in the Everglades is just patently  wrong.\\\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Robert Coker, United States Sugar Corporation\u003cbr/\u003eThe sugar tax plan has cost President Clinton and his Number 2 this farmer's vote.\u003cbr/\u003eAlan Hammock says it will force him out of business.\u003cbr/\u003e\\\"Al Gore appears to be an avid environmentalist. He came down here to the Everglades  and proposed a penny a pound tax on us by the government. That tax never did take off,  there wasn't enough support in Washington and so I am sure he's delighted by Save  Our Everglades efforts to get this tax imposed on us by means of an  amendment to the  Florida constitution - which I believe is unconstitutional.\\\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Alan Hammock, Sugar cane farmer\u003cbr/\u003eProtecting the Everglades has been a priority of the Clinton administration.\u003cbr/\u003eLast February Vice-President Gore outlined a long-range 1.5 (b) billion dollar plan to do  just that.\u003cbr/\u003eRepublican presidential candidate Bob Dole is lagging in the green race.\u003cbr/\u003eAnd that could cost him dear in Florida - a crucial state he must win.\u003cbr/\u003e\\\"It's going to absolutely cost him my vote, and I am a pretty conservative Republican.  So it takes a lot to move me off the Republican vote. But I think it is going to cost him a  lot of other votes in the state of Florida because we're a very, very green state. We've  shown it by other initiatives we've passed, taxes we have put on ourselves to keep our  environment clean. And so unfortunately I think he (Dole) did the wrong thing.\\\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Mary Barley, Save Our Everglades\u003cbr/\u003eHidden among the sawgrass and mangroves, the Everglades are home to 600 species  of animals, more than 250 types of birds and 900 varieties of plants, some found  nowhere else on Earth. \u003cbr/\u003eDecades of farming, pollution, development and drainage are taking  their toll on this  unique part of the world.\u003cbr/\u003eThe fate of this massive ecosystem still hangs in the balance.\u003cbr/\u003eThe votes in Florida on November 5, for the president and on the sugar tax, could well  determine which way that balance tips. \u003cbr/\u003eKEYWORDS: ENVIRONMENT \u0026amp; POLLUTION\u003cbr/\u003e21, 24-26th October 1996, The Everglades, USA \u003cbr/\u003eClewiston, Florida,USA:       \u003cbr/\u003e1. Tracking shot through sawgrass\u003cbr/\u003e2. MW Parker Priest driving air-boat\u003cbr/\u003e3. WS spray from air-boat/Everglades panorama\u003cbr/\u003e4. WS air-boat through frame\u003cbr/\u003e5. Close up  alligator snaps jaws\u003cbr/\u003e6. Water level shot alligator\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE: Parker Priest\u003cbr/\u003e8. WS sun reflecting in water\u003cbr/\u003e9. Low-shot sun through cat-tails\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE: Parker Priest\u003cbr/\u003e11. WS Egret birds in smoke\u003cbr/\u003e12. Close up Egrets\u003cbr/\u003e13. MW fire in cane field\u003cbr/\u003e14. WS cane farmer with torch\u003cbr/\u003e15. WS cane harvester in field\u003cbr/\u003e16. Close up cane rollers/egrets\u003cbr/\u003e17. MW harvester dumps raw cane into hopper\u003cbr/\u003e18. WS harvester and egrets\u003cbr/\u003e19. Pan right from cane mill to \\\"Vote No\\\" sign\u003cbr/\u003e20. SOUNDBITE: Robert Coker, United States Sugar Corporation\u003cbr/\u003e21. WS Alan Hammock driving tractor/pull focus to sugar cane\u003cbr/\u003e22. SOUNDBITE: Alan Hammock, Sugar cane farmer\u003cbr/\u003e23. WS Egret flying/lands in tree\u003cbr/\u003e24. SOUNDBITE: Mary Barley, Save Our Everglades\u003cbr/\u003e25. MW baby alligator with frog in mouth\u003cbr/\u003e26. Pan underwater to fish\u003cbr/\u003e27. WS bird swimming underwater\u003cbr/\u003e28. MW alligator swimming into foliage\u003cbr/\u003e29. MW bird with wings spread\u003cbr/\u003e30. WS turtle swimming underwater\u003cbr/\u003e31. MW dragonfly on flower/second dragonfly lands in background\u003cbr/\u003e32. 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