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absolutsciverson
Jun 4, 2025, 5:40:55 PM6/4/25
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I think its an Eastern Box turtle....
Carl Karasti
Jun 4, 2025, 7:42:26 PM6/4/25
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That does appear to be an Eastern Box Turtle, which is not native to Minnesota, so it's probably a released pet.
Here's a range map.
Carl Karasti
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On our hike today .. I’ve never encountered this color pattern ? Any ideas
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clever...@gmail.com
Jun 4, 2025, 8:19:35 PM6/4/25
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A friend once found one “in the wild” many years ago (and still has it), but it was in the Twin Cities urban area where the chances of a released/escaped pet being found are reasonably good. I’m curious if you encountered it in town or out in the woods.
Steve Wilson
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steven...@email.com
Jun 5, 2025, 10:08:18 AM6/5/25
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It was on a trail in the woods … just outside of town.
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Mike Ruzich
Jun 5, 2025, 12:19:45 PM6/5/25
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Funny aside. When I lived in southern Illinois, box turtles were very common. I had a dog that log carrying large rocks and then burying them. Once he picked up a rather dirty box turtle, probably just out of hibernation. He carried said turtle around for a while, and then reburied it.
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clever...@gmail.com
Jun 5, 2025, 3:45:02 PM6/5/25
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Let’s hope it was an escapee and not a climate change refugee or were in much deeper do-do than I imagined.
Jesse Ellis
Jun 5, 2025, 4:17:06 PM6/5/25
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Post on What's Up Ely FB group, perhaps? Or does WELY have the lost and found call in going yet? Sometimes they get out and wander, and you'd think someone would be looking for it.
However, I'm not sure how someone proves they're the true owner.Jesse Ellis
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The Wilderness Field Station is located on territory where Dakota and
Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) lived. Although treaties with the
United States government deprived both communities of much of their land in Minnesota,
both continue to live in the state, as well as in neighboring states and
in Canada.
Carl Karasti
Jun 5, 2025, 4:29:24 PM6/5/25
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I don't think WELY is quite advanced enough yet in its latest reincarnation to have revived its lost and found service.
When I searched for the box turtle range map, I saw a couple of comments that it is quite common to find released, or perhaps escaped ?, box turtles simply because there are so many people who have (have had) box turtles as pets, perhaps because they are more appealing and more available than other turtles.
Carl Karasti
sparky stensaas
Jun 8, 2025, 9:35:24 AM6/8/25
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Sadly, it is someone's escaped/released pet.
That is a Woodland Box Turtle (Terapene carolina carolina); a subspecies of Eastern Box Turtle.
They are NOT native to Minnesota.
In the midwest they are only in southern Michigan to southern Illinois.
It won't survive.
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On our hike today .. I’ve never encountered this color pattern ? Any ideas
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