The Blanding’s Turtle work I conduct can best be described as a larger project working toward the recovery of the species in Illinois. Overall, the work is multi-agency and has numerous collaborators. With that, I am a member of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources Blanding’s Turtle Recovery Team. Thus, I do also have a role in larger conservation issues the species faces. The fieldwork I have conducted in the past was mainly in the Chicago Region working on various field projects with multiple county-level forest preserve districts.
