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Sarasota News Leader July 19, 2013 Page 43 beach from Access 5 then along "the entire length of the beach" to the area Access 3; the marks showed the furniture was dragged up to that access. More bad news: after having lost multiple [Snowy Plover] nests in that buffer due to human acts and one crow attack, we now have lost all the [Least Tern] nests. A few days ago there were at least ten (10) least tern nests. One Snowy Plover nest in the area had eggs Now there are none!" (Luckner added the emclose to hatching before the incident occurred, phasis.) Luckner added. "It's very disappointing," she told the News Then on July 17, Luckner emailed officers Leader on the afternoon of July 17. with the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Luckner's husband, Bob, is in charge of the Commission (FWC) as well as Sarasota Coun- volunteers monitoring the beach-nesting ty Natural Resources Department personnel, birds, she noted, so he receives daily updates to report the following: about the birds' activities. "This morning all of the south perimeter of the [Access 4] buffer had been torn down. Further, there were both human and dog tracks through the buffer from the south to north. Following the June vandalism near Beach Accesses 9 and 10 — and a similar incident in that location in March, along with a quickly extinguished brush fire — the Sheriff's Office A Least Tern stands near eggs in a nesting area disrupted by people apparently dragging lawn chairs. Photo courtesy of Bob Luckner