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Everglades patrol / Tom Shirley ; foreword by Patsy West.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shirley, Tom, 1930-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shirley, Tom, 1930-.
- Shirley, Tom.
- Park rangers--Florida--Biography.
- Park rangers.
- United States. National Park Service.
- United States.
- Everglades National Park (Fla.).
- Florida.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2012]
- Summary:
- The story of the Everglades seen through the eyes of Tom Shirley, who grew up in the area and went on to become an enforcement officer and game manager for thirty-three years.
- Contents:
- The 1930s: my early years in Miami
- The 1940s: into the Everglades
- Everglades patrol: getting my feet wet
- Everglades patrol: all in a day's work
- After alligator poachers
- Everglades floods
- Public policies, private disasters
- Law enforcement in a failing ecosystem
- From officer to advocate
- Epilogue: gladesmen, then and now.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813041919
- 0813041910
- OCLC:
- 777602114
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