Monitoring Sea Turtles

National Park Service employee Jim Walters studies the nesting habits of loggerhead turtles in Everglades National Park, FL, in 1972. Everglades is a habitat for five of the seven sea turtle species in the world. Along with the loggerhead, the green turtle, leatherback, Kemp’s ridley and hawksbill live there, and they are all either threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act. NPS works with other federal agencies to track and monitor turtles and their nesting in the park and along its coastline.

PHOTO from the Records of the Environmental Protection Agency, courtesy of the National Archives History Office, in collaboration with the Society for History in the Federal Government (SHFG), bringing together government professionals, academics, consultants, students and citizens interested in understanding federal history work and the historical development of the federal government. To join, visit www.shfg.org.

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