Arts & Leisure

The Outside Story: Blanding’s turtle makes its annual journey

ILLUSTRATION BY ADELAIDE Murphy Tyrol

July 7, 2022

By Susan Shea

As spring warms the water, a turtle, covered by leaves and mud at the bottom of a wetland where she hibernated for the winter, awakens.

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