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Mobile Bay Caregiver
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Mr.
Garland Sims on the Fairhope Pier before Hurricane
Katrina. Although there are a lot of "No's" on
that list, one "Yes" he would advocate is "Yes,
cherish our waters!" |
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Mr.
Garland Sims of Fairhope, Alabama has had a long-time love
of Mobile Bay. When the Dauphin Island Sea Lab first
started its Baywatch water quality monitoring program in the
early 1990’s , Garland was one of the first to volunteer and
become a monitor. Dissatisfied with the primitive equipment
used by our program, he went to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Agency to ask for and receive state-of-the-art YSI
monitoring equipment.
For many
years Garland has been a caregiver for Mobile Bay,
faithfully calling in his data to the Sea Lab and Alabama
Department of Environmental Management. Garland has retired
from his volunteer monitoring position and takes wonderful
photographs of the Bay that he loves. The Dauphin Island
Sea Lab wishes to thank Garland for his dedication to the
health of Mobile Bay and for his continuing efforts to make
the waters clean and pleasurable for all creatures - humans,
birds, and aquatic animals.
-- Dr. John Dindo
Chair, Discovery Hall Programs
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