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Hagood, S. , The icc box turtle project. Paper presented at Third Box Turtle Conservation Workshop.
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| Resource type: Proceedings Article BibTeX citation key: Hagood2007 View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Habitat = habitat, Nordamerika = North America, Schildkröten = turtles + tortoises Creators: Hagood Collection: Third Box Turtle Conservation Workshop |
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The Intercounty Connector (ICC) is an 18.8-mile, six-lane highway that will connect I-270 and U.S. 1 in Montgomery and Prince George's counties north of Washington, D.C. The selected alignment will impact a number of large county parks, many of which support populations of the eastern box turtle. Beginning in late 2006, representatives of federal, state, county and local governments, as well as representatives of non-profit organizations, began meeting with the Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA) with the goal of reducing impacts on box turtle populations. The Box Turtle Advisory Group (BTAG) has submitted to SHA a list of recommendations. Principal among recommendations for immediate action was the organization of searches to find box turtles in the impact zone. During the fall of 2007, teams of human and dogs collected over 200 turtles, most of which were taken to a secure pen to await receipt of 150 radio transmitters (turtles too small to be relocated in the pen are being overwintered indoors). Once fitted with a transmitter, 150 were returned to their capture locations; the remaining animals will overwinter in the pen. If ICC construction schedules require forest clearing in areas where turtles with transmitters are known to be overwintering, individuals will be removed from dormancy sites and reburied outside the limit of disturbance. Turtles in non-park patch habitats that will be completely destroyed by highway construction will be relocated to protected sites at some distance from their original home ranges.
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