https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k92hcUzEBc Last winter, a Florida manatee found himself lost and alone off the coast of Texas. In February, he finally got to return home, with help from a Coast Guard HC-144 Ocean Sentry aircraft and some Coast Guard aviators from the Aviation Training Center in Mobile, Alabama. A sheriff’s deputy found the manatee, dubbed Trinidad, a Tampa Bay native found in the cold waters of an energy plant’s outflow near Houston, Texas back in November. He was transported to Sea World San Antonio for rehab, where researchers determined he was a known Gulf Coast manatee who’d been first observed in 2001.…
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Chalk it up as another win for the Navy’s band of botanists. Two rare and long-imperiled plants that subsist only on San Clemente Island are returning from the brink of extinction after decades under the threat of bombs, shelling, SEAL raiders and especially feral goats. The San Clemente Island lotus and paintbrush are numerous enough that the Fish and Wildlife Service downgraded their status from endangered to threatened in a July 25 announcement, which credited the Navy for their comeback. San Clemente, the most southern of the Channel Islands off southern California, is an uninhabited and oft-bombarded isle used in…
