52 C. Kenneth Dodd, Jr. 



In the scenerio presented above, many of the nesting beaches avail- 

 able to the green turtle were undeveloped. Turtles were occasionally 

 poached, run over by boats, and faced problems associated with natural 

 beach erosion and predation. But today, regardless of whether the popu- 

 lation is expanding, development of remaining habitat and the increas- 

 ing human presence it entails threatens to permanently end green turtle 

 nesting in Florida. Unless beaches can be preserved, there is no secure 

 future for this remarkable species. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.— I would like to thank the following 

 individuals for the generous sharing of data and , in many cases, ideas: 



C. and M. Barsumian, A. Carr, G. Dalrymple, R. Dawson, L. Ehrhart, 

 J. Fletemeyer, T. W. Fritts, T. W. Martin, M. Murphy, J. Richardson, 



D. L. Stoneburner, and R. Witham. I thank Archie Carr, Thomas 

 Fritts, P. C. H. Pritchard, and Ross Witham for their comments on the 

 manuscript, and Sheila Hulsey for her silent encouragement. 



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