Secondary Sources "Florida Manatees Suffer Setbacks This Winter." National Wildlife Refuge Association. N.p., 3 Apr. 2013.

Web. 04 Dec. 2013. <http://refugeassociation.org/2013/04/manatees/>. This image shows two manatees side by side in crystal blue Florida waters. The visual really captures the idea of Manatees being dependent on the environment and each other for survival. The website also gave us information on the National Wildlife Refuge Association that protects and enforces laws.

"Manatee." Scubadorable RSS. Arthur and Amy, 14 Aug. 2008. Web. 04 Dec. 2013. <http://www.scubadorable.com/meet/manatee/>. This icon gives the viewer a hint to what the West Indian Manatees look like as soon as they view the website page. It also is a drawn image so show how people are still trying to expose manatee support.

"Find on Facebook." Totally Free Cursors | Free Manatee Cursors . Totally Free Cursors, 10 June 2006. Web. 04 Dec. 2013. <http://www.totallyfreecursors.com/details.cfm/id/5051/Manatee.htm>. The manatee cursor helped us give the website an added addition to prove that manatees are our main topic. It also is part of a manatee awareness website that is free for users to download onto their computer.

"Swimming With The Manatees." Swimming with the Manatees. Guide to Texas Outside, n.d. Web. 04 Dec. 2013. <http://www.texasoutside.com/orlando-vacation/swim-with-themanatees.html>. A diver swims at a very close distance but keeps to themselves. This shows good technique of viewing the manatees since they arent touching, disturbing, or hurting the animal in any way.

LiquidProductions. "Crystal River Manatee Educational Video." YouTube. YouTube, 11 Jan. 2012. Web. 04 Dec. 2013. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIBhatt27tk>. The video shows scars on the manatees backs due to human causes. It explains how theyre trying to enforce speeding boat laws to keep manatees from receiving these harsh wounds they cant avoid.

"National Wildlife Refuge System." National Wildlife Refuge System. National Wildlife Refuge System, 13 Nov. 2012. Web. 04 Dec. 2013. <http://www.fws.gov/refuges/airQuality/ARIS/CHAS/>. This image captures West Indian manatees in Florida waters. All of the manatees huddle together and get very close to people on kayaks. The kayakers are in arms length to these gentle creatures. It shows how friendly these animals are with no defensive mechanisms.

Karnow, Cathernine. "Manatee Troubles." Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Encyclopedia Britannica, 4 Aug. 2010. Web. 04 Dec. 2013. <http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2010/08/manatee-troubles/>. A caution manatee area post is planted around Florida docks and in waters to give boaters warnings that these animals are very close. Without these signs you could potentially kill a manatee and get hefty fines. Tait, Kyle. "Caution Manatee Area." Flickr. Yahoo!, 13 Mar. 2004. Web. 04 Dec. 2013. <http://www.flickr.com/photos/kyletait/542890318/>. A caution manatee area post is planted around Florida docks and in waters to give boaters warnings that these animals are very close. Without these signs you could potentially kill a manatee and get hefty fines.

Cuddle Barn. "Cuddle Barn - Manny the Manatee." YouTube. YouTube, 16 Dec. 2010. Web. 04 Dec. 2013. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPUxwz6uRgk>. The stuffed animal talking manatee gives an extremely important statistic about manatees. The biggest threats they face is from boats. It sends a message to views to please slowdown in these areas.

"INTRODUCING DESPAIRWEAR.IF YOU HAVE DESPAIR ON YOUR MIND,WHY NOT PUT IT ON YOUR BODY, TOO?" DespairWear T-shirts. Despair, Inc., n.d. Web. 04 Dec. 2013. <http://www.despair.com/despairwear.html>. This manatee design is actually part of a t-shirt design. This helps show how even designers are making shirts to promote the protection and awareness of manatees.

Nearing, Janice. "Manatee Posters Promote Boater Awareness." Manatee Posters Promote Boater Awareness. Save the Manatee Club, 23 Aug. 2010. Web. 04 Dec. 2013. <http://www.savethemanatee.org/news_pr_boat_safely.html>. A boat propeller is the main cause of manatee wounds and deaths. It shows how manatees will get dangerously close to boats and wont even react fast enough to swim away from the boats.

"Post Your Manatee Boat - The Hull Truth - Boating and Fishing Forum." The Hull Truth Boating and Fishing Forum RSS. The Hull Truth Boating and Fishing Forum, n.d. Web. 04 Dec. 2013. <http://www.thehulltruth.com/boating-outdoor-photos/335468-post-your-manateeboat.html>. Manatees are very friendly and willingly get close to the boats. Theyll stick their heads up and open their mouths to drink the water coming out of the propeller. This is another helpful image to show how risky it is for them to even be near humans.

Wildey, Timothy. "Fort Myers Beach, Florida - Shrimp Boats at Their Docks." Flickr. Yahoo!, 06 June 2010. Web. 04 Dec. 2013. <http://www.flickr.com/photos/timothywildey/4670067734/>. This photo depicts what type of boats that usual go near manatees since theyre constantly in the sea. All of the ropes and flyways also contribute to the harmful conditions manatees face.

"IAM Levies Over $1 Million In Fines ." Labor Relations Institute, Inc. N.p., 24 July 2013. Web. 04 Dec. 2013. <http://lrionline.com/iam-levies-over-1-million-in-fines>. This sign gives the viewer a heads up that the law is no joke. It signifies that you will have to pay a large amount of money because the laws they placed upon manatees will heavily affect the consequences that come with it.

"Journey North Teacher's Manual." Journey North Teacher's Manual. Journey North, n.d. Web. 04 Dec. 2013. <http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/MapRegions.html>. This map of Florida has the general population of West Indian manatees. The purple area is all the locations that are populated with manatees. It helped give a better understanding as to why manatees tend to live around Florida for the warm waters.

Josh. "Save the Manatees License Plates Get Makeover Jimmy Buffett World." Save the Manatees License Plates Get Makeover Jimmy Buffett World. Buffet World, 20 Dec. 2007. Web. 04 Dec. 2013. <http://www.buffettworld.com/2007/12/20/save-the-manatees-licenseplates-get-makeover/>. A Florida license plate has a manatee protection logo on it. Even license plates are sold to really help get awareness spread for these creatures since not many people know manatees are endangered and are at high risk.

"2013 Manatee Mortality." 2013 Manatee Mortality. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, 2013. Web. 04 Dec. 2013. <http://myfwc.com/research/manatee/rescuemortality-response/mortality-statistics/2013/>. Mortality rates are especially recent. Due to the fact theyre recent it will be an eye opener to the people whove never seen manatee mortality rates and see how high the rates are.

Rattner, Robert. "Manatee Mortality." Manatee Mortality. Save the Manatee Club, n.d. Web. 04 Dec. 2013. <http://www.savethemanatee.org/mort.htm>. The website gave us bullet point variations as to what humans due that result in killing manatees. The information is brief and quick to the point yet it really was insightful since the little things count most.

"Viewing Guidelines." Manatee. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, n.d. Web. 04 Dec. 2013. <http://myfwc.com/education/wildlife/manatee/viewing-guidelines/>. The website provided us with more boating tips to look out for. Money and laws that greatly affect the responsibilities placed upon humans since manatees have the right to be protected.

"Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA)." :: NOAA Fisheries. NOAA, 14 June 2013. Web. 03 Dec. 2013. <http://www.nmds.noaa.gov/pr/laws/mmpa/>. The Marine Mammal Protection Act enforced prohibitions, and authorization that manatees are entitled to. Not only does it include Florida but it adds all of U.S. which shows how important this act is.

"Digest of Federal Resource Laws of Interest to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service." Endangered Species Act of 1973. Federal Resource Laws, 28 Dec. 1973. Web. 03 Dec. 2013. <http://www.fws.gov/laws/lawsdigest/esact.html>. Since this law regards to most fish and wildlife, the laws are enforced even harsher. Since that it is towards endangered animals, like the manatee, the law is pushed even more to save the species.

"Florida Manatee Sanctuary Act." Florida Manatee Sanctuary Act. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Dec. 2013. <http://www.csc.noaa.gov/legislativeatlas/lawDetails.jsp?lawID=629>. The Florida Manatee Sanctuary Act is very specific which is great because it gave us information about the law that is just for the West Indian manatees. The law is mainly about the fines given when violating any law.

"Building a Manatee Boat Alarm." YouTube. YouTube, 16 July 2012. Web. 04 Dec. 2013. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLlCE4QABgc>. Doctor Edmund Gerstein provided information as to why we must protect the manatees so securely. He explains that manatees hearing isnt very good so he came up with a bloat alarm to warn them before the boat come in contact.

"Press Releases." Press Releases. National Wildlife Refuge Association, 28 July 2010. Web. 04 Dec. 2013. <http://www.refugeassociation.org/new-publications/2010/7-28-10.html>. The National Wildlife Refuge Association is crucial for the manatee protection and refuge. It helped us find out how manatees are getting to live peacefully and how the public gets involved to save the animals and its ecosystem by enforcing the law.

"Captive Rehabilitated Florida Manatees Eating Lettuce and Greens." Allposters.com. Brian J. Skerry, n.d. Web. 05 Dec. 2013.I used this picture on my "Boating Information" page because i wanted to give a visual of a statement made in the text. How boats should avoid sea grass bed, this visual shows how manatees feed in those sea grass bed and how you could have a high chance of hitting them.

"Florida Manatees Suffer Setbacks This Winter." National Wildlife Refuge Association. N.p., 3 Apr. 2013. Web. 05 Dec. 2013.This is the picture on the home page because this website is about the West Indian Manatee, therefore we put a picture of two West Indian Manatees as the title picture.

"How Long Do Manatees Live?" How Long Do Manatees Live? N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Dec. 2013.I used this photo on my "Boating Information" page because it gave a visual representation of the results of boaters who aren't cautious about the speed limits and manatees inhabiting the waters.

"National Wildlife Refuge Association Home of the National Wildlife Refuge Association (NWRA)." National Wildlife Refuge Association. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Dec. 2013.I used this as an image in my "Conservation Program" page because it is another picture of the National Wildlife Refuge Association and this page talk a lot about what they do for the West Indians Manatees.

"Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Association." Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Association. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Dec. 2013.I used this Photo at the top of my "Conservation Programs" because this section involves the many things that the National Wildlife Refuge Association does to help protect the manatees.

"Polarized Lenses." Garrison Opticians. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Dec. 2013.I used this picture in my "Boating Information" section to show a visual of the statement I made about polarized sunglasses and how they give you a clearer vision.

"Police Beef up Patrols of Manatee Zones." News4Jax. N.p., 24 May 2013. Web. 05 Dec. 2013.I used this photo to add a visual representation on my "Basic Information" page because it talk about the different sped limits that you have to follow when in an area inhabited by manatees.

Save the Manatee Club Print PSA Archive. Save the Manatee Club Print PSA Archive. Web. 05 Dec. 2013. I put this picture on my "Basic Boating Information" page because i wanted to emphasize that the boating information, rules, and regulations are all put in place for the protection of the manatees and other wild life.

"Video: Swimming with Manatees at Crystal River NWR." National Wildlife Refuge Association. N.p., 27 Jan. 2012. Web. 05 Dec. 2013.I used this picture on my conservation program page because it gives a visual representation of a West Indian Manatee which is the topic of this website.

Primary Sources RIZZARDI, KEITH. "MANATEE SANCTUARY ACT." MANATEE SANCTUARY ACT. Florida State University Law Review, 23 Feb. 1996. Web. 17 Oct. 2013. The Florida Manatee Sanctuary Act was summed up by a Florida State University Law Review and it gave insightful information about the law. It helped understand the fines given when you break a law regarding the West Indian Manatees.

"Endangered Species Act." Gale Encyclopedia of American Law. Ed. Donna Batten. 3rd ed. Vol. 4. Detroit: Gale, 2010. 150-157. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 17 Oct. 2013. The endangered Species Act showed us that it not only regarded manatees, but it also included fish, plant, and wildlife that are endangered. It went into detail about the law given when you violate them.

"Manatee." Animal and Plant Anatomy. Vol. 5. Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish, 2007. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 17 Oct. 2013. This book gave us more knowledge about why Manatees stay in warm waters and near sea grass beds. The anatomy helped us understand why they are very slow and have bad hearing. It told us about how manatees have no defensive response

Ritchie, Bruce. "Propsed Crystal River Restrictions Rile Residents." Google News. The Gainesvillle Sun, 18 Aug. 1993. Web. 4 Dec. 2013. <http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=8ElWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4892,5406693>. This news article from the 1990s shows us how people react when the federal efforts and placed upon local residents it causes stiff criticism. It shows how much of a long way manatees have gone to gain their rights of protection and how it eventually became our responsibility to follow their rights.

Ricciuti, Edward R. "World Book Online Reference Center | Online Reference Book| Online Encyclopedia." World Book. Floridas Endangered Marine Mammals, 7 Aug. 2005. Web. 17 Oct. 2013. This book of Floridas endangered marine mammals gave us a scientific point of v iew regarding the endangerment. It is crucial that we keep this species alive or the food chain could be greatly affected.

Odell, Daniel K. "Sea cow." World Book Advanced. World Book, 2013. Web. 17 Oct. 2013. The book Sea cow had more basic information about the manatee. This information lead us to the reasons mentioned multiple times that they care move very fast or hear well. Also it includes their habitat and what to expect when boating or diving in their location.