A resident taking Giffordtown Lane in Little Egg Harbor Township called the newspaper about turtles being killed as they tried to cross the road between the bogs and the stream that runs into Tuckerton’s Lake Pohatcong. About six or seven small painted turtles were found dead along the roadside before the Ocean County street sweeper came through on Monday.

Perhaps the turtles were coming out of hibernation in the mud of the bogs and were attempting to get to deeper water, as the bogs have been…