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How citizens can best help:
1) Visit the Action Center to contact Governor O'Malley and ask him to sign the terrapin bill into law! While you're there, please thank your Delegates and Senators if they supported the terrapin bills (or encourage those who didn't to please do so in the future)!
2) Sign the petition and encourage your friends to sign.
3) Send an email to terrapinupdate@cterrapin.org if you would like to receive occasional updates on the two bills and how to help their passage.
4) Visit the Upcoming Events page.
The Chesapeake Bay's terrapins:
Terrapins in China's Food Markets
A terrapin 'primer', a newly published book chapter on terrapin ecology.
Data:
DNR Fisheries Feb 7 Public Meeting handout on the 2006 harvest
DNR Fisheries commercial harvest data through mid 2005
Patuxent River population graph
Terrapin size frequency graph - slot limits ensure population declines that will be difficult to recover from
Eastern Neck Wildlife Refuge fyke net drownings PLEASE USE CAUTION: Graphic Images
Other Resources:
Brief (1 page) terrapin handout
Expanded (3 page) terrapin handout
2001 Governor's Maryland Diamondback Terrapin Task Force Recommendations
Scientific literature and references
DNR Fisheries web site archives:
The Terrapin Petition
The Terrapin Petition (with cover sheet)
The Terrapin Petition (without cover sheet)
Why a petition? (Terrapin Petition cover sheet)
Media Coverage:
NAIB students
Chesapeake Terrapin Alliance:
Scientific literature and references
Events attended with our many thanks!:
- 13th Annual Maryland Environmental Legislative Summit
- Patuxent River Appreciation Days at the Calvert County Marine Museum
- CCA MD Symposium, "Saltwater Fisheries Management for the 21st Century"
- MARS captive-bred reptile show
- National Aquarium in Baltimore, weekend petition drives
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From Ernest Hemingway's, The Old Man and the Sea:
“Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too.”