English: Mary Griffin, the Department of Fish and Game commisioner, holds a headstart northern red-bellied cooter at the Celebrate Turtles event in May.
Credit: Bill Byrne/MassWildlife
This family-friendly event provided turtle enthusiasts an opportunity to release headstarted cooters, see a broad selection of other live native turtles found here in Massachusetts, and learn about the threats to turtles here in Massachusetts from biologists and other turtle enthusiasts. Visitors also saw how turtles are tracked with telemetry.
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