Michigan's list of threatened and endangered species could get a major overhaul this year after teams of scientists proposed ranking dozens of plants and animals among the state's most vulnerable ...

Michigan is also home to the Blanding’s turtle, the common map turtle, the common musk turtle, the Eastern box turtle, the red-eared slider, the spiny soft-shell turtle, the spotted turtle and ...

Box turtles can surpass a century in age ... To help officials track turtle populations in Michigan, residents may submit a turtle sighting (with an image) via MIHerpAtlas.org.

They may be about the size of a half-dollar coin now, but these turtles have a big job ahead of them: to try to help stabilize the turtle population in Michigan. Eastern box turtles can be found ...

Powell is the type of good Samaritan Michigan's Department ... Three native turtle species — wood turtles, spotted turtles and Eastern box turtles — are state threatened, according to the ...

The conservation program at John Ball Zoo is playing a large role in trying to revitalize the box turtle population that for hundreds of years has called Northern Michigan home. Unfortunately ...

The box turtle has a high-domed upper shell called ... These turtles occur as far north as Maine on the east coast and Michigan in the central part of the country. So, you can imagine the turtles ...

The turtle sculpture, created by Michigan artist Jim Miller-Melberg ... the troop donated flowers in a granite planter box, custom-engraved with a quote from the turtle sculptor himself ...