BATESVILLE (KATV) — Last year over 50,000 turtles were harvested from Arkansas waterways through commercial turtle trapping efforts. It's a number several conservation groups are petitioning to bring ...

COLUMBUS — Life-long Platte County resident Lee Rupp has been trapping turtles for use in area turtle races for more than 30 years. The veteran turtle wrangler has enjoyed his tag-along apprentice — ...

TABOR, Ia. — Amber Sharp insists that trapping turtles isn’t so much an art form as it is an exercise in common sense. You need to keep an air pocket in the top of the trap so the turtles can come up ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— Following a petition and legal victory from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed protecting the alligator snapping turtle under ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Trapping turtles for profit will soon be a thing of the past in Minnesota. Starting next January, commercial harvesting of the state's wild turtles will no longer be legal. It's a move ...