The Florida Legislature’s failure to pass a budget before adjourning has left key
environmental projects in limbo, including a Senate-approved proposal to restore the
Ocklawaha River by dismantling the Rodman Dam.

For residents like Samuel Carr, president of the Bartram Trail Society who fished the river
before the dam’s 1971 construction, the more than $6 million project represents a chance
to revive what he called a “free-running wild river” from what he said he believes turned into
“a mud hole.”…