We all have a heritage

The Terrapin Institute

and Research Consortium, Inc.

410 370 9171

conservancy from the bottom up, just in case it is “turtles all the way down”,

an alternative concept of native species, their habitats and interactions with others, 
protecting the environment from the movement...
 
Origins
 
Northwest Creek Restoration Plan
 
 
- “other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, 
fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.” 
The Outermost House by Henry Beston
 
 
 
“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals.
Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, 
man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge
and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion.
We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having 
taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. 
For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and 
more complete than ours they move finished and complete,
gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained,
 living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, 
they are not underlings; they are other nations,
caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, 
fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.” 
(From The Outermost House by Henry Beston)
 

Visit the TERRAPIN STATION WINERY: the Bay, the Terrapin, the Wine

 
 
 
2007 legislation and regulations:
Governor's Decision of January 24, 2007
2007 Terrapin Law signed by the Governor
 
2006 legislation and regulations:

DNR Press Release: Revised terrapin regulations effective August 1, 2006.

The Terrapin Institute's response, July 17, 2006

to the DNR 2006 regulatory proposal. TI’s Bay Weekly Commentary.

The Coastal Conservation Association endorses the 2001 Task Force Recommendations.

Also, see the DNR website for a Q and A on the proposal.

Statement of the TI before the House of Delegates, Statement of the TI before the Senate, Statement (pages 3-6) of Wm. Roosenburg, Letter from DNR to Delegate Clagett, Letter to DNR June 2006. Letter to Governor Ehrlich Letter from DNR on behalf of Governor Dec 2005

2001 Task Force Report

Visit Save the Terrapin

A special website for

contributions and support

Thanks to all those generous souls

helping in so many ways.

Reward offered for the return of or information on tagged terrapins. Over 5000 adult terrapins have been tagged, measured, and released back to the Chesapeake Bay. The Terrapin Institute has used several tags since we began marking terrapins in 1999. As animals were recaptured, failed tagging techniques were abandoned and replaced with improved methods. The USGS also tags terrapins and use this method. If these USGS animals are recovered in our efforts, a Terrapin Institute tag is added. The current TI tag is a Floy tag with serial identification number and our phone number. Please call 410 370 9171.

The stones have been recovered and replaced to the Sanctuary where they will serve as a humble monument to Rebecca Clark who was lost in the December 2004 tsunami disaster. We are grateful for the return of the stones. All terrapins released in 2005 are liberated in memory of Reb.

The Terrapin Institute is a public charity, licensed by the State of Maryland as a non-profit corporation, and exempt from Federal income tax (EIN: 03-0531335) under section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions to the Terrapin Institute are deductible. The Terrapin Institute is accredited by the Anne Arundel County Department of Recreation and Parks as a Level One organization for nature exploration and research. We are pleased to meet the challenge of making natural resource conservation a team sport and FUN! Please join us at TERRAPIN STATION.

The Terrapin Institute participates in the HerpArts conservation donation program.

Include “Terrapin Institute” in the Special Instructions section of the payment form

and 10% of your purchases from HerpArts will be donated to the Terrapin Institute Sanctuary Fund.

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