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 ...

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 ...

Friends of Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge will present its first Second Sunday Program of 2026, Wood Turtles at Great ...

BARRE — Clearly curious about its surroundings, a battered old wood turtle slowly made its way back into the wild Tuesday after 11 weeks of rehab at Tufts University's Cummings School of Veterinary ...

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 ...

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, ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Alliance of Forest Owners, and ...

CHEBOYGAN COUNTY, MI – Deep in the woods of Northern Michigan, a blonde labradoodle darted off into the underbrush with his nose to the ground as a group of scientists chased behind him. The working ...

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts wildlife officials are launching a three-year project to help conserve wood turtles in eastern Massachusetts. The turtles were once common in the cool, free-flowing streams ...

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 ...