{"id":6416,"date":"2010-06-06T12:01:27","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T17:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=6416"},"modified":"2010-06-06T17:19:46","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T22:19:46","slug":"the-turtle-guy-visits-the-zoo-the-dartmouth-westport-chronicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=6416","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Turtle Guy&#8221; Visits the Zoo (The Dartmouth-Westport Chronicle)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southcoasttoday.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20100602\/PUB02\/6020362\/1041\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6419\" title=\"zoo 001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/zoo-001.jpg\" alt=\"zoo 001\" width=\"430\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/zoo-001.jpg 430w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/zoo-001-300x258.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>HELLO, FRIENDS.\u00c2\u00a0 Young Sean Whitkens is surrounded by turtles, courtesy of Don Lewis, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Association of Conservation Districts, during a recent lecture program on coastal turtles at Buttonwood Park Zoo.\u00c2\u00a0 PHOTO BY CHRISTINA STYANT\/The Chronicle<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">&#8220;NEW BEDFORD &#8211; Known as &#8220;The Turtle Guy,&#8221; Executive Director of the Massachusetts Association of Conservation Districts Don Lewis recently delivered an informative and sometimes humorous talk on the &#8220;Turtles of Coastal Massachusetts&#8221; at the Buttonwood Park Zoo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southcoasttoday.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20100602\/PUB02\/6020362\/1041\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6418\" title=\"zoo 002 430\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/zoo-002-430.jpg\" alt=\"zoo 002 430\" width=\"430\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/zoo-002-430.jpg 430w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/zoo-002-430-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>A BIG TURTLE: Research scientist Sue Wieber Nourse lets youngsters attending\u00c2\u00a0a lecture on the Turtles of Coastal Massachusetts at Buttonwood Park Zoo have some hands-on time with the real thing.\u00c2\u00a0 PHOTO BY CHRISTINA STYAN<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">&#8220;Research scientist and master educator Sue Wieber Nourse, CEO of Cape Cod Consultants, was on hand to introduce several live turtles to the adults and youngsters attending the lecture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">For the full story from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southcoasttoday.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20100602\/PUB02\/6020362\/1041\" target=\"_blank\">Dartmouth-Westport Chronicle<\/a>, clink on the pictures above or the hyperlink on the newspaper name to the left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HELLO, FRIENDS.\u00c2\u00a0 Young Sean Whitkens is surrounded by turtles, courtesy of Don Lewis, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Association of Conservation Districts, during a recent lecture program on coastal turtles at Buttonwood Park Zoo.\u00c2\u00a0 PHOTO BY CHRISTINA STYANT\/The Chronicle &#8220;NEW BEDFORD &#8211; Known as &#8220;The Turtle Guy,&#8221; Executive Director of the Massachusetts Association of Conservation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=6416"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6426,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6416\/revisions\/6426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}