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Old 01-23-2014, 07:08 AM
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Originally Posted by jbdlfan View Post
I could be wrong, but I believe I read in the Sun a while back that those stakes were all turtle homes. It would be quite expensive to relocate all those turtles.

I think you are right. On the back roads to take our grandchildren to Disney yesterdau, I saw similar little white flags in open fields and a lot of mounds that previously I thought to be big fire ant hills. I am GUESSING that these flags and mounds are connected to some kind of land tortoise or turtle that the golf course called "Turtle Mound" was named after. I know them to be a protected species, because there was a thread some years ago as to why the "ant hills" were left on one of the courses and they weren't anthills but turtle mounds.
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