Episodes of heavy public visitation in key turtle habitats had served to keep me from a return for some time; but on the 25th of August, following the first sustained rain in months, I decided to look in on wood and spotted turtle areas. I searched the nesting terrain of the wood turtles and found […]

This morning brought happier news than I have been able to record in my notebook of the end of July, beginning of August. At 11:37 I approached with great trepidation one of the sites I had noted as being all but certainly that of a completed wood turtle nest. To my finding of the previously […]