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Protecting our parks

Lloyd Brown, director of Wildlife Rescue of Dade County, is offering a voice of sanity in the Aug. 26 article Park plan will save fish and jobs, on the future of Biscayne National Park’s Marine resources.

The bottom line is, it’s a national park and must be, by law, preserved as close to it’s natural state as possible for future generations. The National Park Service’s mandate is to protect all the national parks’ flora and fauna.

Eddie Wightman, Islamorada

This story was originally published August 29, 2015 at 1:53 PM with the headline "Protecting our parks."

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