July 23, 2007
By Charlie Chapple
St. Tammany bureau

Matt Wall and Francis Motichek carefully parted the top of a three-foot high, five-foot wide circular mound of saw grass, exposing the the more than 40 alligator eggs inside.

"This is a healthy clutch," Wall said, nodding in appreciation as he he held up an egg to the Monday morning sun.

Standing on an airboat surrounded by hundreds of acres of marsh, the two carefully lifted 46 gator eggs out of the mound one-by-one and placed them in a large grass-lined and padded plastic bucket in the same position as they lay in the nest.

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