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#028 July 2011

Urban Naturalist: Shell Game – Now you see the bog turtle—tomorrow you might not.

"You’re too cute to hate,” I told the hockey puck-sized black turtle as it clawed at me to get down and craned its neck to bite my hand. Biting is cute when the critter is round, helpless and has big, black eyes. Unfortunately, cute doesn’t count for much when you’re holding up development. The bog

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June 8, 2011
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