It was probably the worst day of the summer to trap turtles. The weather was good and the season was right. The turtles have been out, too. People passing by Crim Dell usually can count on seeing four ...

They looked like modified crab traps, those dozen or so mesh-wire cages that appeared here and there in the shallows of the river slough I often fish. I'd heard of these things — turtle traps. They ...

Logan Yonkus, natural resource technician with the Chippewa Nature Center, waded through a marsh dragging a large net on a recent warm morning. As he climbed out of the murky water, the net revealed ...