turtles: Sunset Beach Sit-a-Thon for the Turtles ~
- 07/03/11 06:12 AM
The Sunset Beach Turtle Watch Program is a private, nonprofit program that solicits volunteers to help monitor turtle nesting at Sunset Beach, North Carolina. Sunset Beach is the smallest of the Brunswick Beaches in North Carolina.
Members of the SSBTHP hold permits from the Non-Game and Endangered Wildlife Section of the North Carolina Wildlife Section of the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission to monitor nests sites, strandings and hatchings.
An interesting turtle fact ~ Nesting season begins on Brunswick County Beaches in early May thru August. Baby turtles begin hatching in late July and continue through October. The (2 comments)