Palm Beach Post Opinion columnist Sally Swartz reports on former Martin County Commissioner Maggy Hurchalla’s remarks in advance of the weekend’s conference on Everglades restoration.

Sally Swartz

“If God hadn’t liked wetlands,Ms. Hurchalla told more than 50 residents at the Environmental Studies Center in Jensen Beach Tuesday evening, “He wouldn’t have made so many of them.”

And all of them, even the little ones developers want to destroy because they’re not perfect, not pristine or considered non-functional, are worth saving. “They are invaluable in the Florida landscape,” she said. “They are the key to making natural systems work.”

You can read Sally’s full column here.