Prairie Sportsman
Save the Turtles
Clip: Season 13 Episode 10 | 10m 26sVideo has Closed Captions
The Minnesota Zoo and DNR are partnering to protect wood turtles in southeast Minnesota.
Wood turtles populations are threatened in southeast Minnesota, so the DNR and Minnesota Zoo are gathering eggs from nests, raising them, and releasing juvenile turtles a year later when they have a better chance of survival.
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Production sponsorship is provided by funding from the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund, West Central Initiative, Shalom Hill Farm, and members of Pioneer PBS.
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Save the Turtles
Clip: Season 13 Episode 10 | 10m 26sVideo has Closed Captions
Wood turtles populations are threatened in southeast Minnesota, so the DNR and Minnesota Zoo are gathering eggs from nests, raising them, and releasing juvenile turtles a year later when they have a better chance of survival.
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Video has Closed Captions
Brook trout are southeast Minnesota's only native trout. (7m 28s)
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Fly fishing for brown and brook trout in East Indian Creek. (7m 37s)
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Prairie Sportsman is a local public television program presented by Pioneer PBS
Production sponsorship is provided by funding from the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund, West Central Initiative, Shalom Hill Farm, and members of Pioneer PBS.