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Wood Turtle, Woo!

Posted by Rose West,
North Country explorer from Canton
April 22, 2019

This was not my personal encounter, but I am grateful to have permission to share. Students from the Sustainability Program located this lovely wood turtle (Glyptemys insculpta) near the small river at the farm, they were unsure of the identifiation but didn’t want to disturb it as they thought it may be nesting. They did get this awesome photo and you can clearly see the highly sculpted shell that is characteristic of Wood Turtles.

Glyptemys insculpta thought to be potentially nesting