Turtles Force Runway Closing at Kennedy Airport

Turtles do what they have always done before humans built airports, runways and all that we call human civilization. Check the story below and the picture showing hundreds of turtles!

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/29/turtles-force-runway-closure-at-kennedy-airport/

Wellesley Country Club - Brookside Road in Needham

The Wellesley Country Club has been reported dumping within an isolated wetland and its associated 100-foot buffer zone jurisdictional under the Needham Wetlands Protection Bylaw (Article 6). Hearing at Needham Conservation Commission on June 23rd.

Check out a previous story associated with the Wellesley Country Club dumping without a permit on Brookside Road in Wellesley.

http://wellesley.patch.com/articles/country-club-issued-cease-and-desist-by-wetlands-protection-committee

Year of the Turtle - 2011

Conservationists have declared 2011 Year of the Turtle. The biggest threat to turtles are not other wild life, but humans. If you drive by Brookside Road in Wellesley, you will see the Turtle Crossing signs that tell you to slow down. This is a time that turtles cross the road into the Wellesley Country Club Golf Course and lay their eggs. The turtles have been here way before the golf course was constructed and they keep doing what they have been doing for hundreds of years. Unfortunately, turtles are moving closer to being in danger of extinction every year.

We urge you to slow down, and let the turtles go their way.

For more information check this out:

http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/dfw/nhesp/conservation/herps/turtle_calendar.htm