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How to protect and prevent Maine turtles from becoming roadkill
The Maine Audubon s three-year-long turtle roadkill survey shows turtles are being killed at an alarming rate and often in places wildlife biologists didn t expect. Author: Beth McEvoy (NEWS CENTER Maine) Published: 2:49 PM EDT April 19, 2021 Updated: 5:18 AM EDT April 20, 2021
MAINE, Maine For the last three years, the Maine Audubon Society has partnered with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, along with Maine DOT, to study turtles. Specifically, they ve been studying how many of Maine s slow-moving creatures are getting run over and ending up as roadkill.
Trained volunteers surveyed different routes several times a year for three years, looking for any roadkill but specifically turtles. Close to 300 turtles were spotted. Not all were roadkill, but the majority were. The surprising findings for biologists were that a third of the sightings
How to care for your mental health in a difficult holiday season, according to therapistsHealth Updated on Dec 23, 2020 4:16 PM EDT Published on Dec 21, 2020 5:23 PM EDT
Chances are the final weeks of 2020 look markedly different than what you would’ve predicted on the first day of this year. With COVID-19 case and death counts on the rise and hospitals continuing to fill up, many are grappling with the ways that the unchecked coronavirus has sabotaged their daily lives, their economic stability and their time-honored traditions at the end of a year where shared celebration and community may feel more important than ever before.