In a small room at Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo live bucketfuls of turtles. And they’re not your common painted turtles or red-eared sliders — these are western pond turtles, which two decades ago had ...
SEATTLE — Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) and Woodland Park Zoo are fighting for the future of a local animal many people probably didn’t realize was approaching extinction just a ...
PIERCE COUNTY, Wash. — Friday was a good day to come out of your shell, especially if you're a western pond turtle in Washington state. Unfortunately, the western pond turtle is on the endangered ...