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Padre Island National Seashore
Texas Area Contacts to Report Nesting and Stranded Sea Turtles
 

Phone 1-866-TURTLE-5 or the Texas area contact nearest you:

 

Bolivar Peninsula, Galveston Island, Galveston Bay

NOAA Fisheries (Galveston Lab)

Shanna Kethan

Tel. (490) 766-3523

E-mail: shanna.baker@noaa.gov

http://galveston.ssp.nmfs.gov/

 

Matagorda Peninsula, Sergeant Beach

San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge

Jennifer Sanchez or Keith Ramos

Tel. (979) 964-3639

Email: jennifer_sanchez@fws.gov

http://www.fws.gov/southwest/refuges/texas/texasmidcoast/sanbernard.htm

 

Matagorda Island

Aransas National Wildlife Refuge

Chad Stinson

Tel. (361) 286-3559

E-mail: chad_stinson@fws.gov

http://www.fws.gov/southwest/refuges/texas/aransas.html

 

San Jose Island, Mustang Island, Corpus Christi Bay

UT – Marine Science Institute / Animal Rehabilitation Keep

Tony Amos

Tel. (361) 442-7638

E-mail: afamos@utmsi.zo.utexas.edu

http://www.utmsi.utexas.edu/staff/amos/ark/index.htm

 

North Padre Island, Upper Laguna Madre

Padre Island National Seashore

Texas Coordinator for the Sea Turtle Stranding and Salvage Network

Donna Shaver, PhD

Tel. (361) 949-8173 ext. 226

E-mail: donna_shaver@nps.gov

http://www.nps.gov/pais/website/sea_turtle_science_and_recovery.htm

 

South Padre Island, Boca Chica, Lower Laguna Madre

 

                       (Nesting Turtles)                        

Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge

Jody Mays

Tel: (956) 748-3607 x119

E-Mail: e-mail us           

http://www.fws.gov/southwest/refuges/texas/laguna.html                         

   

(Stranded Turtles)

UT-Pan American, Coastal Studies Lab

 Don Hockaday

Tel. (956) 761-2644

E-mail: hockaday@panam.edu

http://www.panam.edu/csl/

   

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Did You Know?
Metal detecting is prohibited at Padre Island National Seashore as well as at all other units of the National Park Service?
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Last Updated: July 19, 2006 at 20:16 EST