Supported by the Competitive State Wildlife Grants and Regional Conservation Needs (RCN) Programs. ​

Northeast Wood Turtle Conservation Plan

Conservation Plan for the Wood Turtle in the Northeastern United States represents the cumulative product of a multi-year, proactive effort among Northeastern State Wildlife Agencies, and their partners, to articulate a strategic action plan to protect regionally significant populations of Wood Turtles in the northeastern United States. The fundamental objective of this Plan is to protect the evolutionary potential of the Wood Turtle by ensuring the persistence of functional, ecologically viable, and regionally significant populations throughout the Northeast Region. To accomplish this objective, and to effectively triage conservation efforts, we developed a spatially-explicit, stratified Wood Turtle Conservation Area Network based on the best available population, landscape, and genetic data. Ultimately—in order to achieve meaningful conservation of this unusual and iconic species--it will be necessary to stabilize and reverse population declines within this Conservation Area Network and elsewhere throughout the species range.

Documents and Field FORMS

Standardized Survey Protocol

Survey
​Field Form

Turtle
​Field Form

Data entry Template

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Appendices to the Conservation Plan

I. Habitat Management Guidelines

II. Habitat Management Brochure

III. 2016 Symposium Abstracts

IV. 2016 Expert Survey Report

V. Population Assessment Protocol

VI. Tissue/Blood Collection Protocol

VII. Biology of the Wood Turtle

VIII. Wood Turtle Bibliography

IX. Poaching Awareness Card

X. Site Mapping Guidelines

XI. Regulatory Status in the Northeast

XII. Environmental Review

XIII. Wood Turtle Council Bylaws

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XIV. Genetics Appendices

XV. SWAP Narratives

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Partners

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