Turtle check helpers wanted

The Salisbury Conservation Commission invites the community to join herpetologist Jim Andrews as he checks his live turtle traps on the north end of Lake Dunmore on Thursday, July 13, from 9-11 a.m.

Vermont’s turtles are on the move, and the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department is asking for the public’s help in keeping them safe.

The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department reminds Vermonters that keeping native turtles as pets is prohibited. It can harm the turtle and pose threats to wild turtle populations.

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.

Vermont’s turtles will be on the move this spring, and the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department is asking for the public’s help in keeping them safe.

VERMONT — The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department says keeping native turtles as pets is prohibited because it can harm the turtle and pose threats to wild turtle populations.“Capturing a wild turtle and keeping it as a pet, even if only for a short time … (read more)

MONTPELIER — It’s the time of year again when Vermont’s turtles will be on the move. Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department is asking for the public’s help in keeping them safe. Female turtles will be looking for places to deposit their eggs, sometimes choo … (read more)

MONTPELIER — Each year, Steve Parren, wildlife biologist with the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department, gets contacted about pet turtles people no longer want. Some turtles grow too large. Others require more complicated care than owners realize — turtles … (read more)