I really admire your work and serious knowledge on these guys. I and a few other people working with me for the past few years have been captive breeding NAWTS in New England and we found a pretty good population I've found around 15 in about a 50 acre area. This population is found deep in a clean protected woods that likely never even sees more then 3 people a week and no vehicles. For the past 5 years this small community of North American wood turtle keepers have been captive breeding them and we currently have 8 pairs and 36 young turtles ages from a year to almost 5 years. The project aimed from the start to be as hands off as possible In order to teach them to fend for themselves. They eat alot of captive bred - disease free snails, fish (thiminise free) pesticide free blueberries and raspberries (often found in the area), and all this with little to no contact with us whenever possible. Even their enclosures are filled with the microbiology from the valley where the population is. This year when the first 7 juveniles reach 5 they will be released into thier new extremely secluded and healthy environment and because of how secluded they are, humans should have little to no impact hopefully. This project has been very rewarding and expensive but the release day is going to make it all worth it, I really wish I could tell people the place of release but so people could admire them like I do but I know what would happen if I did.
I've only seen 1 on my property along the Ompompanoosuc R. headwaters. It was about 60-ft from the river. They are quick movers. Town: _______; Elevation 825-ft. Time of year: mid-June. Around 2002
I really admire your work and serious knowledge on these guys. I and a few other people working with me for the past few years have been captive breeding NAWTS in New England and we found a pretty good population I've found around 15 in about a 50 acre area. This population is found deep in a clean protected woods that likely never even sees more then 3 people a week and no vehicles. For the past 5 years this small community of North American wood turtle keepers have been captive breeding them and we currently have 8 pairs and 36 young turtles ages from a year to almost 5 years. The project aimed from the start to be as hands off as possible In order to teach them to fend for themselves. They eat alot of captive bred - disease free snails, fish (thiminise free) pesticide free blueberries and raspberries (often found in the area), and all this with little to no contact with us whenever possible. Even their enclosures are filled with the microbiology from the valley where the population is. This year when the first 7 juveniles reach 5 they will be released into thier new extremely secluded and healthy environment and because of how secluded they are, humans should have little to no impact hopefully. This project has been very rewarding and expensive but the release day is going to make it all worth it, I really wish I could tell people the place of release but so people could admire them like I do but I know what would happen if I did.
Dont tell anybody
This was really good. I appreciate your efforts to educate people about this information.
This is really informative and thorough. Thank you!
I've only seen 1 on my property along the Ompompanoosuc R. headwaters. It was about 60-ft from the river. They are quick movers. Town: _______; Elevation 825-ft. Time of year: mid-June. Around 2002
In the future, edit your images so they do not have map identifiers, like the highway name visible in this. Opsec!!