The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is spending four million dollars to remove part of an island in the Mississippi River south of Wabasha. The project has attracted criticism from scientists who say the island is a crucial nesting site for a number of threatened species of turtles. Mainstreet Radio's Rob Schmitz reports. {This sandy, windswept island is a desolate place; nothing about it is eye-catching. It's name, after all, is a number. But that doesn't stop Mike Pappas from nick-naming Island 42 'the Taj Mahal' of turtle nesting.