Photos by Steve Arbury
One on of his frequent walks through Wildwood Park recently, Radford University Art Professor Steve Arbury came across a large snapping turtle who needed some help. “She was trying to get down to the creek area to lay her eggs, but was foiled by the metal grid fence along the bike trail, about a 100 yards before you get to the tunnel that goes under Main Street,” said Arbury. “She was somehow stuck and too large for me to extricate on my own, at nearly two feet long with her tail and quite heavy. So I called Matt [Close, Biology professor at RU], who has lots of experience with sort of thing, and he deftly and quickly got her untangled and then placed her on the other side of the fence. We watched her as she disappeared into the undergrowth on her way down to the creek.”
