Jade Dupuis, Environmental Specialist with the St. Johns County Environmental Department gets ready to release a juvenile endangered green sea turtle into the intercoastal waterway after being rescued from the pond at the Mission of Nombre de Dios in St. Augustine, FL on Wednesday, June 17, 2009. Photo by Jennifer Perez
One of the three juvenile green sea turtles that was rescued from the pond at the Mission of Nombre de Dios in St. Augustine, FL on Wednesday, June 17, 2008. The sea turtles were later released after being recorded, measured and tagged into the intercoastal waterway by the State Biologist for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Dr. Allen Foley, Coordinator Karrie Minch and St. Johns County Recreation and Parks and Environmental Division Habitat Conservation Coordinator, Tara Dodson, Beach Manager Billy Zeits, Field Assistant, Sharon Evans, Field Surveyor, Kim Maldanado and Environmental Specialist, Jade Dupuis. Not sure exactly when or how long these sea turtles have been in the pond, the scientists speculate that there is a good possibility that it's been since tropical storm Fay in September when the area flooded and made it easy for the sea turtles to enter the pond from the intercoastal waterway. Photo by Jennifer Perez
Jade Dupuis, Environmental Specialist with the St. Johns County Environmental Department gets ready to release a juvenile endangered green sea turtle into the intercoastal waterway after being rescued from the pond at the Mission of Nombre de Dios in St. Augustine, FL on Wednesday, June 17, 2009. Photo by Jennifer Perez
Publication Date: 06/18/09
Three juvenile green sea turtles were rescued from the pond at the Mission of Nombre de Dios. The turtles were tagged, measured and recorded and then released into the Intracoastal Waterway by officials with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission -- Allen Foley and Karrie Minch -- and St. Johns County -- Tara Dodson, Billy Zeits, Sharon Evans, Kim Maldanado and Environmental specialist Jade Dupuis.
Photos by Jennifer Perez, Special to The Record
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