America’s National Parks Podcast
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Under the light of the moon, shelled creatures emerge from the ocean and make their way onto the sandy shoreline. They drag their bodies through the sand until one by one, they stop. Each migrant reptile will use her back flippers to dig a hole in the sand, depositing up to 100 eggs before covering them again for protection. The new mother will then follow the moonlight back into the safety of the ocean. It's early summer along this seashore, and something spectacular is occurring: it’s sea turtle nesting season along the Outer Banks in North Carolina.
A couple of months later, tiny turtles will emerge from the sand and their shells and begin the seemingly impossible journey back into the ocean, on the same sand their mother did years or even decades earlier. Although they face many challenges, these magnificent creatures are worth protecting.
This week on America’s National Parks: the sea turtles of Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
The Battle of Bunker Hill
Restoring the Everglades
100.Years of Hot Springs, New Filming Rules | National Park News
Scandal and Special People of Effigy Mounds
100 Years at Mount Rainier
Digging Up Dinosaurs
Mask Mandate, Commercial Filming Permits Struck Down | National Park News
Wolves of Isle Royale
Little American Island
St. Croix Heroes and Mussels
The Steel Driving Man
Our 63rd Park | National Park News
Surviving Winter in the National Parks
Medgar Evers
Humpbacks
The Obelisk from Nowhere, Park Projects Funded, $270 Million Lawsuit | News from the Parks
Pipestone
Wild Horses
Ring, Grandfather, Ring
Changes to Free National Park Admission,World's Longest Fossilized Footprints | National Park News
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