last refuges for declining rare endangered species

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A Double-crested Cormorant flies from the Chesapeake

A Double-crested Cormorant flies from the Chesapeake

A Double-crested Cormorant flies from the Chesapeake Bay at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., May 10, 2017. Military installations like JBLE, oftentimes act as refuges for wildlife as environmental preservation c... More

A Great Blue Herring stands in brackish water near

A Great Blue Herring stands in brackish water near

A Great Blue Herring stands in brackish water near the Langley Air Force Base nature trail at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., May 10, 2017. Joint Base Langley Eustis is home to species including birds and repti... More

Karen Terwilliger, a local environmental expert, looks

Karen Terwilliger, a local environmental expert, looks

Karen Terwilliger, a local environmental expert, looks out to brackish water shores ideal for Diamondback Terrapin Turtle reproduction at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., May 10, 2017. Langley Air Force Base has... More

Diamondback Terrapin Turtles poke out of the water

Diamondback Terrapin Turtles poke out of the water

Diamondback Terrapin Turtles poke out of the water as they looks for an ideal nesting area at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., May 10, 2017. The Diamondback Terrapin was a federal candidate for listing under the... More

Karen Terwilliger, a local environmental expert, points

Karen Terwilliger, a local environmental expert, points

Karen Terwilliger, a local environmental expert, points out an ideal Diamondback Terrapin Turtle nesting are to Alicia Garcia, Colorado State University natural resource program manager for Langley AFB, at Join... More

Karen Terwilliger, a local environmental expert, searches

Karen Terwilliger, a local environmental expert, searches

Karen Terwilliger, a local environmental expert, searches for Diamondback Terrapin Turtles making their way to shorelines at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., May 10, 2017. Environmental experts like Terwilliger ... More

Alicia Garcia, Colorado State University natural resource

Alicia Garcia, Colorado State University natural resource

Alicia Garcia, Colorado State University natural resource program manager for Langley AFB, and Karen Terwilliger, a local environmental expert, walk out to marshes at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., May 10, 201... More

Karen Terwilliger, a local environmental expert, and

Karen Terwilliger, a local environmental expert, and

Karen Terwilliger, a local environmental expert, and Alicia Garcia, Colorado State University natural resource program manager for Langley Air Force Base, point at a Diamondback Terrapin Turtle wading through b... More