Opponents of the expansion hope so. Bog turtles, a federal “threatened” species, are of “particular concern” in the wetlands near the Carroll County Regional Airport that were identified as a ...

A bog turtle, listed at threatened under the Endangered Species Act, in its sphagnum moss wetlands habitat. The Trump administration has proposed big changes to federal protections for threatened and ...

North America's tiniest turtle is at risk, with a dwindling population and shrinking bog habitat. Zoo Knoxville's work gives the species a better chance at survival. The increasingly rare reptile is ...

When: Mount Joy Township supervisors meeting, June 17. What happened: As part of long-term planning for Old Trolley Line Park, the board accepted a $2,144 proposal from Herpetological Associates of ...

There are fewer bog turtles because of their rare − and shrinking − habitat, along with dangers posed by poaching and the illegal pet trade. Zoo Knoxville's head-start program brings in bog turtle ...

BEL AIR, Md. -- -- The best way to catch a bog turtle is a technique called "muddling." This turns out to be just as messy as it sounds. Scientists plunge their hands into swamp mud as thick as ...

A media release from Center for Biological Diversity: ASHEVILLE, N.C.— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today [Nov. 25] for delaying critically needed ...

When the battle of the bog hit the state?s second-highest court Thursday, the talk turned to dogs ? or, more precisely, dog waste that may or may not have ended up flowing downstream and possibly ...

FLOYD — Anona Miller checked a muddy mountain rivulet and found nature’s equivalent of that needle in a haystack — a rare bog turtle. “I won!” Miller called out to other scientists plodding about a ...

Researchers suggest that several bog turtle (Glyptemys muhlenbergii) populations in North Carolina, USA, are in decline and have few remaining individuals and low annual survival probability. Most ...

The last of New York's wild bog turtles live in swamps that have long been sunny, mucky places full of low green plants and waist-deep mud pits. But an invading foreign weed threatens to transform the ...