{"id":15379,"date":"2014-06-16T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T17:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=15379"},"modified":"2014-06-16T20:34:16","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T01:34:16","slug":"community-unites-to-save-terrapin-nest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=15379","title":{"rendered":"COMMUNITY UNITES TO SAVE TERRAPIN NEST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/post-forbes-beach-008-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15386\" title=\"post forbes beach 008 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/post-forbes-beach-008-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/post-forbes-beach-008-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/post-forbes-beach-008-480-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Forbes Beach Neighbors Save Terrapin Nest<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Neighbors near Forbes Beach in Wareham, Massachusetts came together to save a threatened diamondback terrapin nest and 14 babies-in-waiting.\u00c2\u00a0 On June 11th, Momma Terrapin crawled ashore from the Crooked River off Forbes Beach and meandered down a nearby dirt road.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/post-forbes-beach-001.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15380\" title=\"post forbes beach 001 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/post-forbes-beach-001-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/post-forbes-beach-001-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/post-forbes-beach-001-480-180x300.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Makeshift Barrier Protects Terrapin Nest<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The terrapin dug a little here, then she dug a little there, and finally she forced her nest through a compacted gravel driveway.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;What to do?&#8221; wondered the neighbors.\u00c2\u00a0 They decided to erect a makeshift triangle barrier around the nest to ensure that no one would drive over the eggs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/post-forbes-beach-003-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15382\" title=\"post forbes beach 003 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/post-forbes-beach-003-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/post-forbes-beach-003-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/post-forbes-beach-003-480-300x262.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Carefully Excavating Nest to Harvest Fragile Eggs<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">They called Turtle Journal and today, with the whole community on hand, we excavated the nest, scratching our way for nearly an hour, fingertip\u00c2\u00a0by fingertip, through hard sharp gravel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/post-forbes-beach-006-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15384\" title=\"post forbes beach 006 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/post-forbes-beach-006-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/post-forbes-beach-006-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/post-forbes-beach-006-480-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Terrapin Nest Forced Through Compacted Gravel Driveway<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Accompanied by a chorus of oo&#8217;s and ah&#8217;s, we harvested 14 perfect eggs for relocation to a safe turtle garden to incubate for the next 60 to 90 days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/post-forbes-beach-011-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15388\" title=\"post forbes beach 011 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/post-forbes-beach-011-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/post-forbes-beach-011-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/post-forbes-beach-011-480-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Fourteen Perfect Terrapin Eggs Harvested<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Once they\u00c2\u00a0emerge this summer, the hatchlings will be returned to the Forbes Beach community for release into the nursery salt marsh rimming the Crooked River.\u00c2\u00a0 Well done, Forbes Beach, as another community joins the crusade to save the world one turtle at a time.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes Beach Neighbors Save Terrapin Nest Neighbors near Forbes Beach in Wareham, Massachusetts came together to save a threatened diamondback terrapin nest and 14 babies-in-waiting.\u00c2\u00a0 On June 11th, Momma Terrapin crawled ashore from the Crooked River off Forbes Beach and meandered down a nearby dirt road. 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