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Saving the Everglades. U.S. Sugar sale called turning point in Glades cleanup "The state of Florida and the nation's biggest sugar grower unveiled the details of what would become the largest environmental acquisition in state history, a $1.7 billion buyout of 187,000 acres of farmland that Gov. Charlie Crist called the ''missing link'' in the stalled effort to restore the Everglades."