[KDD]

http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=dry+tortugas&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=AHQWTOCwKMT6lwf9_OG5DA&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CEwQsAQwAw

In case anyone is interested in what we are about kill.

Get a good last look.

[Sleeping Freeper]

http://www.closertonature.com/maps/dry-tortugas-map.jpg

This place is about as good as it gets in terms of “pristine”....

Really sad.

[Freddd]

‘we’?

You mean Obama’s dithering and playing golf, is going to kill..

[rwfromkansas]

Thanks for the reminder of my failures to go there when I took trips to the Keys.

This is just making me sick to my stomach.

[a real Sheila]

But, but, I’ve been told by several freepers that this is not that big a deal, it is overblown, the gulf will not die, nature will heal itself, bla, bla, bla...

[mojitojoe]

The only living coral reefs in the United States? Millions visit them each year from all over the world? A national marine sanctuary? Decimation of the Florida lobster industry? Decimation of the sponge bed in the GOM and the Caribbean? This is the month that many crustaceans, and fish spawn. Their eggs float to the top. The coral spawn is during the full moon in August and September. Stone crabs spawn during the spring and summer.Bastards! The only good thing is that the longer it isn't in the Keys and southern GOM, the better the chance for the newly hatched to survive.