Sense of Place

Tag: Wildlife Conservation

  • Box Turtles and “Rebel Love”

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    by Nicolette L. Cagle, Ph.D., September 19, 2026, Durham, North Carolina. I am exhausted, having just returned from Duke Forest, where my students and I were searching for and radio-tracking Eastern Box Turtles (Terrapene carolina carolina). The effort, persistence, and perspiration are worth it: a chance to give back to the Box Turtles that have…

  • Looking into the Box: Individuality and Variation in Eastern Box Turtles

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    by Nicolette L. Cagle, June 1, 2026 In the last post, we opened the box by looking at the Eastern Box Turtle’s participation in the forest-floor food web. We considered the turtle not as an ecosystem service, but as a participant in the exchanges that make the forest floor come alive. Now we look more…

  • Wrapped in a Box: The Gifts of the Eastern Box Turtle

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    by Nicolette L. Cagle, Ph.D., May 25, 2026 In the previous posts in this Eastern Box Turtle series, we followed the turtle from deep evolutionary time into the present: through its ancient shell, its contested names, its once broad but now shrinking range, its remembered routes, its habitat mosaics, and the broken landscapes that threaten…