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  • This researcher is searching a burrow for turtles.
    Restoration 17
  • Graduate student, Kim Schmidt, weighs the ornate box turtle with a pesola scale.
    Restoration 19
  • When the prairie is restored and healthy, the native wildlife also returns. This burrow is a sign of the terrestrial ornate box turtle, which seeks out habitats that are sandy and dry like parts of the prairie grasslands.<br />
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The turtles will retreat to their burrows to escape the heat, to find moisture and to hibernate in the winter.
    Restoration 16
  • This ornate box turtle's shell is damaged above his head. Perhaps another animal tried to see what he tasted like. <br />
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Prairie restoration demands hard, tedious and sweaty physical labor. The work is rewarding when the results create a habitat that allows this threatened Illinois turtle to flourish.<br />
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Ornate Box Turtle (Terrapene ornata)
    Ornate Box Turtle
  • The Ornate Box turtle has been on Illinois’s threatened species list since 2009. This box turtle is very fancy, or ‘ornate,’ with bright yellow stripes radiating across its shell. The turtle favors a prairie habitat that has open grasslands for hunting insects, spiders, worms and vegetation and also likes sandier soils suitable for digging burrows. This turtle species is unique, for it has a hinged plastron (the shell on the turtle’s underside), which allows the turtle to completely pull its head, tail and legs inside the shell for protection.
    Ornate Box Turtle
  • The researcher has located an ornate box turtle.
    Restoration 18
  • The turtle is measured with a caliper.
    Restoration 20