Yesterday on our way out to the end of Tranberg Rd. (a.k.a., Refuge road) we stopped to chat with Sharon Grimes, a local naturalist who was conducting turtle surveys several times each week for Claudia Lombard while she is participating in one of life's most fundamental and oldest processes - her first child is due in several weeks. Claudia is also busy with an exotic vegetation eradication project on Green Cay. According to Mike Evans, Green Cay is home to only one of several small populations of the St. Croix ground lizard. Many blame the mongoose for the extirpation of the St.