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Title Everglades patrol / Tom Shirley ; foreword by Patsy West.
Author Shirley, Tom, 1930-
Publication Info. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2012.
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Fourth Floor  975.939 SHI    Check Shelves
 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Fourth Floor  FLORIDA 975.939 SHI    Lib Use Only
 Southwest  975.939 SHI    Check Shelves
Description xvii, 274 p. ; ill. : 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-261) and index.
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.
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.
Subject Shirley, Tom, 1930-
Park rangers -- Florida -- Biography.
United States. National Park Service.
Everglades National Park (Fla.)
Added Author West, Patsy, 1947-
ISBN 9780813041919 (hdbk. : alk. paper) : $29.95
0813041910 (hdbk. : alk. paper)