Located between metropolitan Miami-Dade County and the upper Keys community of Key Largo, Biscayne National Park occupies 173,000 acres of diverse and dramatic natural and cultural resources and attracts 500,000 persons each year. This volume provides a general description of its social and cultural context and discussed current user groups and their activities in the park. The National Park Service is the U.S. federal agency that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations.

As a hermit crab molts and looks for a new shell, it passes by the many different inhabitants of the coral reef.

Considers S. 3983, to authorize the establishment of Biscayne National Monument, Florida.