{"id":1162,"date":"2008-10-23T17:16:30","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T21:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?page_id=1162"},"modified":"2012-10-09T16:29:47","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T21:29:47","slug":"habitat-sites","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?page_id=1162","title":{"rendered":"Habitat &#8212; Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1088 alignleft\" title=\"turtle-journal-reports-840\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/turtle-journal-reports-840-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/turtle-journal-reports-840-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/turtle-journal-reports-840.jpg 840w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/turtle-journal-reports-840.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>\u00c2\u00a0<\/h2>\n<h2><a title=\"About Index\" href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?page_id=1084\">About Index<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2>\u00c2\u00a0<\/h2>\n<h2>\u00c2\u00a0<\/h2>\n<h2>Information about habitats and study sites from the\u00c2\u00a0tempestuous tip of Outer Cape Cod,\u00c2\u00a0all along\u00c2\u00a0the ever-changing Atlantic and Gulf coastlines, to the always sunny, always warm\u00c2\u00a0and forever beautiful Caribbean Sea, with diversions from time to time to\u00c2\u00a0similar paradises like Maui and the Canary Islands.<\/h2>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left\">\n<h2 style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?page_id=195\">Cape Cod: Marine Stranding Hot Spot<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<h2 style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left\">\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left\"><span><span>Winter and spring astronomic tides entice marine mammals to chase bait fish deep into serpentine estuaries, trapping them on the oozy bottom as the tide flushes out beneath them. Pilot whale strandings were so frequent in Wellfleet that a major estuary, Blackfish Creek, was named after the bounty they brought the Outer Cape community. Critically endangered sea turtles get trapped in Cape Cod Bay by icy fall waters, get cold-stunned once temperatures drop below 50 degrees F and are tossed hypothermic on bay beaches by sustained wind events in November and December. Strandings come year-around and involve a committed bunch of adventurous spirits who dedicate themselves to mitigating the impact of Cape Cod\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dangerous geography. In July 2002, 43 pilot whales stranded in the Run south of Lieutenant Island. The video clip below shows a young calf encircling her beached mother and her pleas\u00c2\u00a0echo the urgency of our efforts to save marine animals from the worst outcome of these stranding events.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?page_id=185\">SouthCoast: October Fog Blankets Sippican Harbor<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left\"><span><span>The SouthCoast offers protected estuaries from Wareham to Westport that formerly supported rich terrapin populations. Today, small remnant populations have been confirmed on both east and west coasts of Buzzards Bay. A few dedicated homeowners have created sandy \u00e2\u20ac\u0153turtle gardens\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to offer increased nesting areas to compensate for centuries-long human development of the SouthCoast shoreline.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 About Index \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 Information about habitats and study sites from the\u00c2\u00a0tempestuous tip of Outer Cape Cod,\u00c2\u00a0all along\u00c2\u00a0the ever-changing Atlantic and Gulf coastlines, to the always sunny, always warm\u00c2\u00a0and forever beautiful Caribbean Sea, with diversions from time to time to\u00c2\u00a0similar paradises like Maui and the Canary Islands. \u00c2\u00a0 Cape Cod: Marine Stranding Hot Spot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1084,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11972,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1162\/revisions\/11972"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}