Just because there’s no diagonal yellow-and-black turtle-crossing sign beside the highway it doesn’t mean turtles aren’t trying to get across.
Less highway traffic this year will likely mean fewer vehicle-turtle collisions.
Matt Ellerback operates the website Turtle Conservation 101.
He says this is the particular time of year we should be concerned with turtle conservation and betterment.
Ellerback says if you are relocating a turtle off the 417, make sure you move it in the direction it was heading.
