Introducing: Lake County!
Lake County has three main species of interest: the endangered Blanding's turtle, the common snapping turtle, and the painted turtle. We work closely with Lake County Forest Preserves to monitor these populations and their health. [...]
Introducing the Box Turtle Team Leaders of 2026!!
Introducing the Box Turtle Team Leaders of 2026!! Turtle season is officially back, and we could not be more excited! Over the next few months, we’ll be [...]
Field Updates
Hey, everyone! It's been a super busy past couple of weeks, as we've been in the field quite a bit, tracking our own ornate box turtles and helping out with the last week of Eastern [...]
Week 10: Summer is almost over!
Hello everybody! This week we had our second-to-last week, and we did some more trapping to wrap up our numbers for the summer. As researchers, we aim to have an amount of captures every year [...]
Tips and Tricks to Surviving Poison Ivy
The compound urushiol is found in poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac, which causes a contact allergic dermatitis in the majority of the population. We’ve both suffered from some pretty gnarly poison ivy this [...]
Worst Turtle of the Week 5/26-6/1
This especially nippy snapper from DuPage County tugged himself into the newest "Worst Turtle of the Week" position. After his workup, he not only did not want to give us our rope back, but also [...]