I have to agree. The selfrighteous conservationist who talk about saving reptiles always seem to disagree. I do worry about the transformation of disease. I know that some california desert tortoise populations were destroyed because of RELEASED desert tortoises with respiratory illness. But animals that have never been in captivity I think would be fine. I have relocated spotted turtles, box turtles, painteds, and redears(feril of course). I have found some of these turtles 10 years later doing fine. (You kinda remember a box turtle that has a name carved in to it, or a 2legged painter). I went to a local nature center to tell them that a spotted turtle population was in the line of a road project , I was told that spotteds were not endangered so there was nothing they could do. I relocated 15 adults and 10 subadults to another swamp. My only regret is that I didn't find more. I did however fine 8 dead turtles is one day of walking after work had started. I have been scolded more than once by my peers ,but while they preech conservation people like us are doing it.

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