Saving wildlife
Takako Hashimoto ’01
Fall 2004
Wildlife biology graduate Takako Hashimoto
works with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at Pelican Island National
Wildlife Refuge (NWR),
America’s first refuge established in 1903, on the central east
coast of Florida.
Hashimoto joined the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as a co-op student
at Clemson. Before Pelican Island, she worked with manatees and the
whooping crane reintroduction project at Chassahowitzka NWR north of
Tampa Bay. 
Her office also manages Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge, which hosts the largest population of nesting loggerhead sea turtles in the Northern Hemisphere.
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