Turtle Crossing

Turtles have add it hard since the building of roads. As turtles have evolved to protect itself from mammals with it's hard outer shell, they have not prepared itself for the automobile. The turtle population has greatly decreased because of the automobile, while one, trying to cross the road and two, because their habitat has and is being destroyed with the building of roads. Yesterday I passed a turtle trying to cross the road. I ended up turning around and moving the turtle across the road to safety. The turtle was an Eastern Painted Turtle.