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Pearl River Map Turtles could delay One Lake project. What exactly are these turtles?

A potential new setback to the contentious One Lake development project comes down to the Pearl River Map Turtle, a species named for its distinct map-like shell pattern, that is unique to the Pearl ...
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Rare Louisiana map turtle secures new protections in hopes of keeping it from going extinct

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will add new protections for a rare turtle whose ridged shell looks like a topographic map, with the goal of keeping it from going extinct. The federal agency has ...
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Feds seek to protect map turtles in 4 Gulf states, Georgia

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Monday that it is proposing threatened status for the Pearl River map turtle, seeking to grant added federal protections to an at-risk ...
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Feds seek to protect map turtles in 5 Southern states

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The U.S. Fish and ...
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Feds seek to protect map turtles in 4 Gulf states, Georgia

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - This undated photo provided by the University of Georgia/USGS shows a Pearl River map turtle. The Pearl River map turtle, ...