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Sarasota News Leader June 14, 2013 Page 23 It was clear that whoever perpetrated the damage was "specifically targeting" the buffer zones for the snowy plovers, Osborne said. The destruction indicated a lot of anger, he pointed out. The staked-off areas are well away from the Gulf of Mexico and not obstructing any path to the beach, he noted, though "somebody obviously doesn't think so." "It's scary to me that someone is so willful, when nothing is impeding them" from reaching the shore, Luckner told the News Leader. The volunteer who discovered the damage on the morning of June 12 was unable to recover all the stakes and string that had been used to mark off the nesting area, Luckner said, because some of the material was thrown into standing water on the beach. A county sign at a Siesta beach access is designed to educate visitors about the endangered beach-nesting birds on the island. File photo Private property near Siesta Beach Access 9 is a favorite nesting area for snowy plovers. Part of the area was the scene of a brush fire that was extinguished quickly in late March. File photo