
this summer my 15 year old son Zach and I went to the Gulf of Mexico to do a story about the Kemp’s ridley sea turtle, which was already critically endangered before the oil spill, and now its future is even more parlous. Here’s an excerpt of the Dispatch, which will be up shortly (soon as my oldest boy Andre, who has been swamped out in Utah, can put it up), that VanityFair.com posted on September 21.
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/09/ridley-turtles-201009