Hurricanes effect on turtle nests; ten remaining as October goes

Hurricanes effect on turtle nests; ten remaining as October goes

BY ARLENE HALL, BGSTA SECRETARY If you’ve watched the local TV news or read a local newspaper these past couple of weeks, there have been many stories about the impacts and recovery associated with those hurricanes that affected the island over the past few years. Despite the varying degrees of devastation and beach erosion caused by each of those storms, sea turtles still showed up to nest on our shores the following year. While changes such as…