Tag: sea turtles

BY ARLENE HALLBGSTA SECRETARY After 182 days, BGSTA’s 2025 Turtle Patrol season came to an end on October 30. That’s when the last remaining green sea turtle nest (at right) reached 70 days old...

BY ARLENE HALLBGSTA SECRETARY I was trying to hold off as long as I could before writing this week’s turtle column and weekly stats, hoping that MAYBE our single remaining incubating green sea...

BY DENISE JUERGENS,ARLENE HALL BGSTA SECRETARY If you are comparing the BGSTA’s weekly turtle stats listed each week in this paper, you may have noticed a slight increase in both the loggerhead...

Adoptive ‘parents’ for nests across Gasparilla Island BY ARLENE HALL, BGSTA SECRETARY As of this week, the 2025 sea turtle nesting season for the BGSTA is down to single digits, with only...

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...

BY ARLENE HALL, BGSTA SECRETARY YAWN. Pardon me, but the sea turtle nesting season for us patrollers is such a boring time. No new crawls have occurred since August 31 and the current nests we...

BY ARLENE HALL, BGSTA SECRETARY As I’m writing this article, BGSTA turtle patrollers have completed 278 inventories involving the sea turtle nests on Gasparilla Island. In previous articles,...