That box turtle in your yard has been there longer than you.
Eastern box turtles live 50-80+ years. They have home ranges of only 2-5 acres. They know every rock, every water source, every hibernation spot in their tiny territory.
They're also disappearing. Fast.
Box turtle populations have declined by over 50% in the past 50 years. In many suburban areas, they're functionally extinct — no breeding population remains.
The causes:
Cars. Box turtles move slowly. They cross roads. They don't make it.
Collection. People find them and take them home as "pets." A 40-year-old turtle removed from the wild never adapts to captivity.
Relocation. Well-meaning people "relocate" them to parks or woods miles away. The turtle immediately tries to walk home. Across roads. Through neighborhoods. For months. Until it dies or is killed.
Habitat loss. Every subdivision that replaced forest eliminated an entire generation.
Dogs. Domestic dogs kill box turtles by crushing their shells.
Every box turtle you see is irreplaceable. They take 7-10 years to reach sexual maturity. Females lay only 3-8 eggs per year. Survival rate for eggs is below 5% due to raccoon and skunk predation.
They can't recover from population loss quickly. Losing one breeding female sets the local population back a decade.
What to do:
If you see one crossing a road — help it across in the direction it's heading. NEVER relocate it elsewhere.
NEVER take one home as a pet. It's illegal in many states and a death sentence for the turtle.
If it's in your yard — leave it. It lives there.
Keep dogs supervised — they attack turtles.
Drive carefully on rural and suburban roads May-October.
That turtle survived 40 years in a 3-acre world.
Its entire life depends on those 3 acres staying safe.
Leave it where it is. Help it cross the road. And let it be.
FACT CHECK: THE CALIFORNIA ELECTIONS ARE NOT RIGGED.
IT’S SUPPOSED TO TAKE DAYS, AND EVEN BETTER, WEEKS TO FIND OUT THE WINNER.
THIS IS NORMAL AND IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH IT YOU ARE A CONSPIRACY THEORIST.
Spencer Pratt got 0 out of 24,000 votes in a late night LA ballot drop.
0/24,000
A guy getting around 30% support got 0 out of 24,000.
Astronomically small probability of happening.
Impossible.
California no longer even hides it.
Doors need to be kicked in.
We're not all stupid. If California is the only place that counts ballots for weeks and weeks after the election there's something going on. It's called cheating. Allowing ballots to come in after election day and you keep counting until you get the election results you want that's cheating. Do you people even have a brain that's not atrophied yet?
@TomSteyer Pipe down Tommy..
Explain how Florida got 11M votes counted before the end of the night.
Meanwhile your SHIT state can’t get a city Mayoral election counted.
You’re a fckn bullshitting blowhard
@BuzzPatterson@dojphofficial The way Newsom was talking on national TV about ensuring Democrats win…taking extreme measures like dropping tens of thousands of forged ballots was the plan? Bottom line is Democrats will literally do anything to win!
In last night’s ballot drop Spencer Pratt received ZERO votes out of 24,000. The odds of that happening are in the multiple trillions!
They’re cheating. @dojphofficial.
https://t.co/mBndZmVAj4
@benonwine I wouldn’t be surprised if he ends up in prison! He has perpetrated criminal acts and as a result thousands of innocent children were sexually abused & murdered.
🚨 BREAKING: The US Senate has just REJECTED the SAVE America Act as part of budget reconciliation, 48-50 — would've required voter ID and proof of citizenship nationwide
REPUBLICAN NAYs: Thom Tillis, Lisa Murkowski, Mitch McConnell and Susan Collins
UNBELIEVABLE!!
It needed 60 votes.
Why can't the Senate pass what over 80% of Americans want?!
Florida processes more than 10 million votes in a matter of hours.
California takes days — or sometimes even weeks — to count the votes.
It’s pathetic — and it’s corrosive to our civic culture.
Colorado’s Jefferson County Public Schools had 61 male athletes on girls’ sports rosters.
Not one. Not a handful. 61.
Biological males taking roster spots, wins, scholarships, and safety from actual girls, all while the district cheered it on.
This isn’t “inclusion.” It’s erasure of girls’ sports.
How many more districts are hiding the same numbers?
Any Republican senators calling out Tillis, Murkowski, McConnell or Collins? Any Republican senators calling out Majority Leader Thune? Nope. None. It's political cowardice. Hold them all accountable. Every single Republican senator who refuses to call out and condemn Thune and the 4 RINOs should be primaried.
Meet the four "Republicans" who VOTED AGAINST attaching the SAVE America Act to the budget reconciliation bill, successfully blocking the bill:
Collins (R-ME)
McConnell (R-KY)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Tillis (R-NC)
LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT…
THE GOP ARE OUT THERE:
>BLOCKING RECESS APPOINTMENTS
>TAKING LONG VACATIONS
>NOT VOTING ON DOGE CUTS
>TRYING TO PASS AMNESTY FOR ILLEGALS
>…ACTIVELY VOTING AGAINST THE SAVE ACT?!!!
IS THIS THE “MAJOR REFORM” THE AMERICAN PEOPLE VOTED FOR?!!!
@SenMcConnell Fuck you McConnell; you’re a POS!
Anti-American NAZI….
Who in their right mind would vote against the Save America Act?
Retire RIGHT NOW!