052918 LCJ Turtle Recovery (CJ)

Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Callie Golba, of Elmhurst, a graduate research assistant with Northern Illinois University, holds a Blanding's turtle before releasing it into local wetlands in northeast Lake County along Lake Michigan for the Lake County Forest Preserves Blanding's Turtle Recovery Program.(5/23/18)

Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Callie Golba, of Elmhurst, a graduate research assistant with Northern Illinois University, holds a Blanding's turtle before releasing it into local wetlands in northeast Lake County along Lake Michigan for the Lake County Forest Preserves Blanding's Turtle Recovery Program.(5/23/18)

Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Callie Golba, of Elmhurst, a graduate research assistant with Northern Illinois University, puts a Blanding's turtle hatchling into local wetlands in northeast Lake County along Lake Michigan for the Lake County Forest Preserves Blanding's Turtle Recovery Program.(5/23/18)

Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Veterinarian technicians Lauren Mumm and Kirsten Andersson, both of Savoy, use a veterinary lab on location to weigh, take DNA samples, and check the blood work of endangered Blanding's turtle hatchlings before releasing them into local wetlands in northeast Lake County along Lake Michigan for the Lake County Forest Preserves Blanding's Turtle Recovery Program.(5/23/18)

Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Veterinary student Lauren Mumm, of Savoy, puts a Blanding's turtle hatchling on a scale to weigh it before releasing it into local wetlands in northeast Lake County along Lake Michigan for the Lake County Forest Preserves Blanding's Turtle Recovery Program.(5/23/18)

Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Gary Glowacki, a wildlife biologist with the Lake County Forest Preserves, holds Blanding's turtle hatchlings named Grayce and Trixie, as part of the Adopt-a-Turtle Campaign, before releasing them into local wetands in northeast Lake County along Lake Michigan.(5/23/18)

Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Veterinarian technician Kirsten Andersson, of Savoy, uses a swab to wipe saliva out of the mouth of a Blanding's turtle to get DNA before releasing the hatchling into local wetlands in northeast Lake County along Lake Michigan for the Lake County Forest Preserves Blanding's Turtle Recovery Program.(5/23/18)

Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Gary Glowacki, a wildlife biologist with the Lake County Forest Preserves, shows a Blanding's turtle between twenty and thirty years old with a radio transmitter which emits a unique frequency to track the turtle in the wild as part of the Blanding's Turtle Recovery Program in northeast Lake County along Lake Michigan. Fifty-four turtles in the wetlands released by the Lake County Forest Preserves have a transmitter.(5/23/18)

Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media A group of Blanding's turtle hatchlings stay in a container waiting to be released by the Lake County Forest Preserves in local wetlands in northeast Lake County along Lake Michigan.White paint is used to make dots on the back of the turtles to give them a unique code to identify them in the wild. Eighty-eight turtles were released on that day for the Blanding's Turtle Recovery Program.(5/23/18)

Candace H. Johnson-For Shaw Media Endangered Blanding's turtle hatchlings were released into local wetlands in northeast Lake County along Lake Michigan for the Lake County Forest Preserves Blanding's Turtle Recovery Program.(5/23/18)