Early Friday morning, about a dozen volunteers scattered across a wooded patch of land on Tybee, looking for box turtles.
The seven acres of maritime forest is slated to become Solomon Park, a passive nature preserve on the island’s north end. But first, Tybee is cleaning up areas of the park’s perimeter where trash was once dumped. Crews are scheduled to come in Monday with heavy equipment to remove the top layer of soil.
That remediation could prove crushing to box turtles. These terrestrial turtles are too well camouflaged for heavy equipment operators to detect and they’re too slow to scurry out of the way…