Collection for pets is a pretty minor threat to boxies in TN compared to habitat loss, development, deaths from agricultural equipment, highway mortality, pesticide and other pollution, deliberate killing by humans, predation by domestic and feral dogs and cats and non-native coyotes, and so on; still, it's one more thing they don't need.

It is illegal to stop and move turtles off the road in TN, violating both traffic and wildlife laws. Which isn't to say I don't do it, just that it probably shouldn't be recommended to the public in a newspaper article.