Journalism in the Americas

Take a Peek into What the Turtles Have Been Up To While They’re Away From the Turtle Pond

As students prepare to go on break, the turtles are away from the main campus, too. As cooler weather quickly approaches, students will soon be going on fall break, taking time away from the hustle ...
JD Supra

Western Pond Turtle Listing Will Impact Land and Water Managers Throughout the Western U.S.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has proposed listing the northwestern pond turtle (Actinemys marmorata) and the southwestern pond turtle (Actinemys pallida) as threatened species under the ...
KTVZ

Two West Coast pond turtles proposed for endangered species protection

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KTVZ) -- In response to a petition and lawsuit by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Friday proposed to protect northwestern and ...
komonews

Dozens of Western Pond turtles at Woodland Park Zoo to be released into protected wetlands

SEATTLE — The Woodland Park Zoo and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife biologists (WDFW) are preparing more than 35 Western Pond turtles for release in the wild. As part of the Western Pond ...
Yahoo

A turtle crossing in a Connecticut dry cleaner helps painted turtle moms lay eggs and hatchlings to reach a pond

A turtle outside of Best Cleaners.Courtesy of Jennifer Malon and Best Cleaners. A dry cleaning store in Connecticut has become a passageway for local turtles. Female turtles cross from a local pond ...
E&E

‘Wary’ pond turtles are now in the clamorous ESA arena

The Fish and Wildlife Service has already received a lot of input on its proposal to list two species of turtles as threatened. Fish and Wildlife Service proposals to protect two species of western ...