Only half of North Carolina's known sea turtle nests hatched before Hurricane Erin impacts - The Coastland Times

Only half of North Carolina's known sea turtle nests hatched before Hurricane Erin impacts - The Coastland Times

The North Carolina Sea Turtle Project kept careful watch over incubating nests threatened by the ocean overwash, storm surge and erosion associated with mid-August’s Hurricane Erin. Under the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, the N.C. Sea Turtle Project is a coastwide, collaborative conservation effort that brings together federal, state, conservation and volunteer groups to monitor sea turtle activity, particularly during nesting an…