How the human species will treat life on earth, so as to shape this greatest of legacies, good or bad for all of time to come, will be settled in the next one hundred years.” —E.O. Wilson

Thousands of diamondback terrapins, aquatic turtles found at the shore, drown yearly in commercially set crab pots, also known as traps. This is the real cost of a Jersey shore crab dinner, and I am here on a walk, tallying the dead. Come along.

I’m not sure if this is the best day to do this. I can easily recognize what I call a 90/90/0 day (90% humidity, 90 degrees…