{"id":4357,"date":"2000-10-25T20:58:59","date_gmt":"2000-10-26T01:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=4357"},"modified":"2010-03-01T21:10:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T02:10:57","slug":"searching-for-lethal-debris-25-october-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=4357","title":{"rendered":"Searching for Lethal Debris &#8212; 25 October 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/10\/10-25-1-480.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4359\" title=\"10-25-1 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/10\/10-25-1-480.jpg\" alt=\"10-25-1 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/10\/10-25-1-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/10\/10-25-1-480-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Don Lewis Paddles Fox Island Wildlife Management Area<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">With water temperatures in Wellfleet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s creeks hovering around 50 Fahrenheit, time has come to sweep marsh channels for potentially lethal debris.\u00c2\u00a0 Last fall more than a 100 diamondback terrapins died in these salt marshes and this year we&#8217;re not going to allow history to repeat.\u00c2\u00a0 See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/terrapindiary\/die-offs\/die-offs.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Death in the Marsh<\/a>, documenting the dramatic die-off of terrapins in the Wellfleet population.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/10\/10-25-2-480.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4360\" title=\"10-25-2 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/10\/10-25-2-480.jpg\" alt=\"10-25-2 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/10\/10-25-2-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/10\/10-25-2-480-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Marsh Channels between\u00c2\u00a0 Indian Neck and Paine Hollow<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">A few days of bright sunshine have raised the water temperature to 12 C (53.6 F).\u00c2\u00a0 The 10 knot northerly breeze has cleared visibility in the creeks, mucked up by several days of a westerly blow.\u00c2\u00a0 The channels around Indian Neck and Fox Island, which last year were blocked by \u00e2\u20ac\u0153ghost\u00e2\u20ac\u009d netting and other debris, seem remarkably clear and open.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/10\/10-25-3-480.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4361\" title=\"10-25-3 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/10\/10-25-3-480.jpg\" alt=\"10-25-3 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/10\/10-25-3-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/10\/10-25-3-480-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Debris Pile off Indian Neck Brumation and Nursery Habitat<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">A single pile of debris remains off Wise Hill.\u00c2\u00a0 Iron framing, netting and oyster boxes have been mangled together by the tides and while they don&#8217;t block any channels now, they still pose a potential hazard when underwater at high tide and especially should they be swept from the marsh by a storm surge.\u00c2\u00a0 We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll pull this material ASAP.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/10\/10-25-4-480.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4362\" title=\"10-25-4 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/10\/10-25-4-480.jpg\" alt=\"10-25-4 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/10\/10-25-4-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/10\/10-25-4-480-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Flooded Marsh off Indian Neck<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">But the good news is that Wellfleet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s salt marsh habitat seems clear and healthy this fall.\u00c2\u00a0 Channel patrols will continue by kayak until ice forms and by foot throughout the winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don Lewis Paddles Fox Island Wildlife Management Area With water temperatures in Wellfleet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s creeks hovering around 50 Fahrenheit, time has come to sweep marsh channels for potentially lethal debris.\u00c2\u00a0 Last fall more than a 100 diamondback terrapins died in these salt marshes and this year we&#8217;re not going to allow history to repeat.\u00c2\u00a0 See Death 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