Tag: box turtles
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World Turtle Day at LLELA
May 23rd is World Turtle Day, an opportunity to celebrate those animals that found a good plan and stuck with it for over 200 million years. The earliest turtles developed a protective shell and then rearranged their bodies to be able to swim, walk, and even run while encased in that shell. It’s a remarkably effective […]
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Finding a Box Turtle
(I wrote this in The Great Rattlesnake Highway blog, several years ago. I thought it was worth bringing over here before I finally retire the other blog.) In May of the year 2000, Steve Campbell and I found a box turtle on our way to the LBJ National Grasslands, north of Decatur. It was an […]
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The “Dunedain” of the Cross Timbers
All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings Once again this year I had the privilege of teaching herpetology to an incoming group of Master Naturalists. Today […]
Our Lives In Nature 