After stifling under a pall of rank smoke for three weeks, officials of a dozen east coast Florida cities met last week in Fort Lauderdale to discuss what they could do about a major catastrophe. Firessome of them presumably started by alligator hunters burning grass around their quarry's wallowhad swept more than 1,000,000 acres east and south of Lake Okeechobee. The burned area included 154,000 acres of rich muck and peatlands which nature was centuries in laying down and which expensive drainage systems were installed to make arable. Down through the sawgrass...
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