I'm amazed. I found 27 individual adults this summer(plus a few juvies and one hatchling) in central PA. I've also found 18 adults in Maryland, 2 in New Jersey, 16 in North Carolina, and 7 in Virginia. I do agree that populations need to be protected, but this is the most box turtles I've seen in the past 5 years.



Also I'm not even gonna touch the NA wood population numbers...I lost count after 40.



Here's some boxie pics from this year:



Male hit on road:





Nice young female:





Nice female NA wood


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Jeff H.

http://www.jandsherps.com

http://www.pareptile.org

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• box turtle decline in PA - gaboonviper3, Mon Aug 23 01:14:16 2004
• RE: box turtle decline in PA - bdssff2, Mon Aug 23 12:39:56 2004
• RE: box turtle decline in PA - pacman101, Mon Aug 23 18:09:02 2004
• RE: box turtle decline in PA - dragoncjo, Mon Aug 23 18:34:03 2004
• RE: box turtle decline in PA - banjo125, Wed Aug 25 13:28:12 2004
• Probably Illegal, and Not a Good Idea Anyway >> - chris_mcmartin, Mon Aug 23 18:11:08 2004
• RE: Probably Illegal, and Not a Good Idea Anyway >> - gaboonviper3, Mon Aug 23 21:09:06 2004
• RE: Probably Illegal, and Not a Good Idea Anyway >> - dragoncjo, Mon Aug 23 22:59:09 2004
• Technically illegal - EdK, Thu Aug 26 10:28:27 2004
• RE: box turtle decline in PA - jsherps, Sat Aug 28 14:23:03 2004
• RE: box turtle decline in PA - dragoncjo, Tue Aug 31 18:18:32 2004
• RE: box turtle decline in PA - jsherps, Sun Sep 5 14:35:28 2004