High School Biology Teacher McCracken Incorporates Turtle Conservation Into Classes
As part of their Environmental Studies course work this past school year, students in Melanie McCracken’s Biology class have been working to save Blanding’s turtle hatchlings for reintegration into the wild. Here Emilie Schuler and Aleigha Hillberg measure and weigh hatchlings. Photo by Mary Metzger
Students at Groton Dunstable Regional High School released 13 Blanding’s turtles June 13 into the wetlands near the fields where they were found last autumn as hatchlings. Photo by Mary Metzger
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