The Turtle Problem

"For many decades now, vast swathes of the world have been filling up with turtles. It seems high time someone brought about their more even distribution."

The front seat of his Datsun Sunny was scattered with maps overlaid with quadrille grids of various gauges; a closer inspection would reveal that at each point of intersection was drawn a tiny circle fringed with six smaller protruberances. Resolute in his task, he loaded the last of several shuffleboard tangs onto his roof-rack and set his mouth in a grim line.