Posted on 05/10/2006 4:53:34 PM PDT by EveningStar
DESTIN, Fla. - A beach restoration project in the Florida Panhandle has been shut down until next fall after an endangered sea turtle was killed, authorities said.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers stopped the work after the Kemp's ridley sea turtle was killed during dredging Sunday. It was the third endangered sea turtle killed since the project began...
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There are plenty being raised in Cayman...
My family has been in Walton County since at least the 1700's. I haven't been to the beach in years tho.
Absolutely true.
The thing that really aggravated me about the airport expansion was the tons of debris (cement. rocks, dirt etc) that was hauled out to the Altamont dump site (~25 miles each way) for disposal. Then they applied for an airport runway expansion, which would mean filling in part of the bay.
They could have just dumped that into the ocean.
And yes, Lurkers, I am well aware of the environmental aspects of all this, but it could have been completed in a logical safe practice, with time, effort and thinking put into it.
Garter snakes are as common as grass!
i guess some do
..they ought to gather all the Cecil's up and ship them off to Hawaii. That way the can eat all the endangered flies.
Soup anyone?
It was a San Francisco Garter snake, which is an endangered species. The major difference between it and a common garter snake is a red stripe and it is slightly smaller. If it disappears from the planet, there are millions of common garter snakes that will fill it's place in the food chain. Tree-humping-bunny-huggers pi$$ me off.
They can use the turtle shells as a nice helmet...maybe it'd keep the sun from BLEACHING THEIR BRAINS!
No wonder it's endangered. It's probably gay.
Nice beach.
I've got a really good recipe that I've never been able to use...
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I understand the crew enjoyed turtle soup without the mock.
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