Last June my wife Marie and I encountered a mature wood turtle while walking through a forest near our home. We admired the intricate topography of its shell, inspiration for this species’ scientific ...

Photo courtesy Diane Baedeker Petit, USDA. This photo is available for media use. “Wood turtles are dying out mostly because people are degrading the waterways where they live,” said Collette Adkins, ...

NORTH OF DULUTH - About 200 yards off a railroad grade, researcher Maddy Cochrane waved her antenna in a semicircle to hear the strongest beep on her VHF radio receiver, then bolted off in that ...

Wood turtle photo by Diane Baedeker Petit, USDA. This photo is available for media use. “Wood turtles are dying out mostly because people are degrading the waterways where they live,” said Mollie ...

There's a large rock jutting up from Skytop's lower lake that represents a favorite basking site for one or two painted turtles, especially on cooler spring and summer mornings when these reptiles ...

The news for wood turtles in Minnesota is not good. According to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources’ Wood Turtle Habitat Conservation Plan, finalized in 2020, declining population trends ...

Mark Powell can talk wood turtles for as long as you let him: what they eat, when they breed, where they nest, the social tendencies of males versus females, their preferred habitat based on the ...

On a sunny April morning, Bryan Windmiller, director of conservation for Zoo New England, and I sat about 10 feet apart on two “socially distanced rocks” next to a brook in a suburb west of Boston. As ...

In a town in eastern Massachusetts there's a baseball field with a secret. The woods and wetlands around it are home to about 11 wood turtles. The turtles are so rare that conservationists want the ...

The news for wood turtles in Minnesota is not good. According to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources’ Wood Turtle Habitat Conservation Plan, finalized in 2020, declining population trends ...