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31. William L. Finley, “Federal Bird Reservations,” Nature Magazine (May 1926).
32. E.W.S., “Save the Birds,” Outlook (February 27, 1909).
33. C. Hart Merriam, Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Biological Survey 1909 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1909), p. 16.
34. Warren Zeiller, Introducing the Manatee (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1992), p. 116.
35. T.R., “The Conservation of Wild-life,” Outlook (January 20, 1915).
36. Clara Barrus, The Life and Letters of John Burroughs, Vol. 2 (Boston: Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1925), p. 42.
37. Alfred Henry Garrod, “Notes on the Manatee (Manatus Americanous) Recently Living in Society’s Gardens,” in The Collected Scientific Papers of the Late Alfred Henry Garrod, W. A. Forbes (ed.) (London: R. H. Porter, 1881) pp. 303–313. Outram Bangs, “The Present Standing of the Florida Manatee, Trichechus Latirostris (Harlan) in the Indian River Waters,” American Naturalist, Vol. 29 (September 1895), p. 345.
38. Robert Barnwell Roosevelt, Florida and the Game Water-Birds of the Atlantic Coast and the Lakes of the United States (New York: Orange Judd, 1884), p. 10.
39. Zeiller, Introducing the Manatee, p. 98; and “Along the Florida Reef,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine (1876).
40. Marston Bates, The Forest and the Sea (New York: Knopf, 1960), p. 31.
41. Carl Safina, Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earth’s Last Dinosaur (New York: Holt, 2006), p. 61.
42. Kathryn Hall Proby, Audubon in Florida (Coral Gables: University of Miami Press, 1974), p. 75.
43. “Dry Tortugas National Park: Superintendent Annual Narrative Report (fiscal year 2004)” and “Park Vision” (Archives) 2007 Timeline, Dry Tortugas, Fla.
44. Rachel Carson, The Edge of the Sea (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1955), p. 204.
45. Mark H. Lytle, The Gentle Subversive (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), p. 79.
46. Job, Wild Wings, p. 87.
47. Alexander Sprunt, Jr., “The Tern Colonies of the Dry Tortugas Keys,” Auk, Vol. 65, No. 1 (January 1948), pp. 5–6.
48. James W. Porter and Karen G. Porter, The Everglades, Florida Bay, and Coral Reefs of the Florida Keys (Boca Raton: CRC, 2002), pp. 829–830. See also Florida Department of Environmental Protection Report (2007).
49. Elizabeth Weise, “Scientists: Global Warming Could Kill Off Reefs by 2050,” USA Today (December 13, 2007), p. A1.
50. Bird-Lore, October 1, 1907, Vol. IX, No. 5.
51. Pine Island Files, Mission Statements, Pine Island National Wildlife Refuge, Sanibel, Fla. Today Pine Island is part of the J. N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge Complex, named after a famous political cartoonist who had a penchant for conservation.
52. Dr. William Wilbanks, Forgotten Heroes: Police Officers Killed in Early Florida, 1840–1925 (Paducah, Ky.: Turner, 1998), p. 98.
53. Michael Wisenbaker, “The Hermit Warden of Cayo Pelau,” Florida Monthly (April 2005), pp. 26–27.
54. B. S. Bowdish, “Ornithological Miscellany from Audubon Wardens,” Auk, Vol. 26, No. 1 (January 9, 1909).
55. Columbus McLeod, “White Pelicans,” Auk, Vol. 26 (January 1909).
56. “Public Opinion,” E.W.S., “Save the Birds,” Outlook (February 27, 1909).
57. Frank M. Chapman, “A Case in Point,” Bird-Lore, Vol. 18 (1916).
58. Wisenbaker, “The Hermit Warden of Cayo Pelau,” p. 26.
59. Lindsey Williams, “Audubon Warden McLeod Murdered for Feathers on Ladies Hats,” Charlotte Sun Herald, April 26, 1992 and Joe Crankshaw, “Warden’s Valor Saved Egrets From Extinction,” Miami Herald Tropic Magazine, June 8, 1992.
60. St. Augustine Record, quoted in Lindsey Williams and U. S. Cleveland, Our Fascinating Past (Punta Gorda, Fla.: Charlotte Harbor Area Historical Society, 1993), p. 211.
61. E.W.S., “Save the Birds,” Outlook (February 27, 1909).
62. Raymond Ditmars, The Reptile Book (New York: Doubleday Page, 1908).
63. L. N. Wood, Raymond L. Ditmars: His Exciting Career with Reptiles, Animals, and Insects (New York: Julian Messner, 1944), p. 132.
64. T.R. quoted in University of State of