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Along the Coast: After big year for nests, initiative to protect turtles expands to Boynton Inlet

Posted by The Coastal Star on November 29, 2017 at 12:41

7960757878?profile=originalVolunteers with Sea Turtle Adventures install collection canisters for used fishing line at the Boynton Inlet. Photo provided

By Steve Plunkett
    
    Sea turtles nested on South County beaches in mostly record numbers in 2017.
    “We had a record-b

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Along the Coast: Number of turtle nests is solid, but dry summer blamed for low hatchling count

Posted by The Coastal Star on November 2, 2016 at 12:29

By Willie Howard

    Sea turtles dug good numbers of nests on south Palm Beach County beaches and set a nesting record in Ocean Ridge during the 2016 season.
    But hot, dry weather is being blamed for a relatively low number of hatchlings from nests

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