The volunteers and staff move the eggs from the original turtle nest to a secure site and monitor them throughout the night.

But now the group has decided to have volunteers monitor the police from their homes.

Twenty volunteers are monitoring the river every two weeks, in six locations from Yonkers to Pleasantville.

The volunteer will monitor park activities and will contact the park ranger if a problem is observed.

Over a short period, it's hard to see whether this is working," Mr. Tetrault said, "but now the volunteers will monitor the survival rate for us.

By the end of 1979, Mr. Brown said, more than 1,000 volunteers had monitored courts in 17 counties.

The volunteers are also monitoring the Suffolk County Criminal Cour.

The volunteers and monitors all remained blind to the exact dosages for the sake of the experiment.

Across the country, trained volunteers are monitoring the condition of their local streams, lakes, estuaries and wetlands.

Usually, the volunteers monitor the city dispatch system and show up at fires in their neighborhoods to help out, or they receive calls from neighbors.