Boys' Life, August 1st, 2001
Humans have already destroyed a quarter of the world's coral reefs. Now, it's time to help keep what's left. s a teenager-and a Boy Scout in Troop 116, West Palm Beach, Fla.--I loved hiking and camping in Jonathan Dickinson State Park's coastal sand pine scrub. It's where I first saw an eastern diamondback rattlesnake, a Florida scrub jay and a gopher tortoise.
While this environment is often considered Florida's most distinctive ecosystem*, to me the distinction should belong to the ecosystem just offshore in the Atlantic Ocean-the amazing underwater world of its coral reefs.
Early Reef Enc...
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