Talk:Blanding's turtle

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The article I read says blandings turtle grow to 10 inches max I found a male in sheburne county minnesota that I would have to say was 10" plus. this is the fourth blandings turtle I've found all males, one was hit by a car with a piece of his shell cracked in, it was sent to the U of minnesota repaired tagged and documented then returned. anther I found inthe pond by my house and this was also documented and released. The last large male I referred to above I only assissted across the road. If anyone has info on where to report these in Mn let me know please. --Millesswj08 (talk) 02:08, 31 July 2008 (UTC)Thanks William Milless

I just updated the info on conservation status in Canada. The previous text cited the ROM species at risk page which has been annoyingly out of date for a long time. Please do not revert back or change without careful research - google searches will invariably turn up a plethora of old government and NGO pages that are out of date. Matt Keevil (talk) 00:30, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Whole-heartedly agree...just moving your comment under the older one. :-} NYMFan69-86 (talk) 03:16, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Conservation

I prefer the wording that I had before. The new wording is awkward because it makes it sound like the status in Canada is provincially determined - while the provinces do have their own listings the endangered designation for the Nova Scotia population is federal. So it is endangered in some provinces (Nova Scotia) and Threatened in others (PQ and Ontario) but this is not because it is assessed separately by province - it's just that there is a disjunct distribution with the larger threatened part in Ontario (and a bit across the Ottawa R. in Quebec), and another smaller endangered population that happens to be contained within the boundaries of Nova Scotia. If there are no objections I will change it back.Matt Keevil (talk) 18:08, 25 November 2011 (UTC)