As some of you already know, if you’ve been reading my columns from the beginning, my journey has taken me through different waters. While I was raised here, after college, I ventured off — first to ...
Red-eared slider turtles can live a good life in a secure outdoor pond, and can be quite entertaining to watch. Credit: Braastad family photo In 1975, red-eared slider turtles with shells measuring ...
The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. A rotund turtle with an extra-long neck and short legs bumbled across the bottom of ...
LAKEWOOD, Pierce County — Nearly a year they wait, munching on crickets, mealworms and small chunks of fish to pass the time. But Friday morning, their time came. At a small pond in the Lakewood area ...
John Maerz, a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Georgia Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, knew there were non-native turtles in the Mary Kahrs Warnell ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Ten tiny northwestern pond turtles have arrived at the Oregon Zoo’s conservation lab. The zoo is “head-starting” the endangered reptiles, caring for them until next spring, ...
The Oregon Zoo released 22 northwestern pond turtles into the Columbia River Gorge to boost the endangered species' population. The turtles were raised in a conservation lab where they grew quickly, ...