Turtle Tracks--a blog that follows the tracks of wild turtles...and more!

Welcome to the Turtle Tracks blog! Visit often to learn about the goings-on at the Earthshine Turtle Tracks Eastern Box Turtle Rescue, Rehabilitation and Conservation Program.

Turtle Tracks is based at Earthshine Mountain Lodge in Lake Toxaway, North Carolina USA.

In a nutshell Turtle Tracks can be described as;
1: a rescue and rehabilitation center for turtles that have been injured due to encounters with man, his machines and domestic animals.

2: a monitoring and census study of native Eastern Box Turtles (Terrapene carolina carolina) using mark-recapture and radio telemetry to census and monitor the status, health and movements of the local population of turtles on the mountain.

3: an environmental education program that offers hands on, exciting and fun experiential learning. It is one thing to read about wildlife in a book or watch it on TV but to actually get the chance to go out in the field and assist with wildlife conservation, study and research--now that leaves a lasting impression on a person--an impression that may grow into a passion for studying, preserving and protecting wildlife and their habitats from our own back yard to entire ecosystems.

Tracking Jimmy Irwin at Earthshine Lodge!

Turtle Tacks is a wonderful program open to guests of the lodge and anyone who would like to learn more about the wonderful world of the box turtle. For more information on Turtle Tracks and other nature programs at Earthshine check us out on the Earthshine Nature Pages.

Meeting Jimmy Irwin

This blog will also be an outlet for my Youtube series Wild Adventures with Steve. In Wild Adventures I investigate and explore all things wild and natural--especially things of a reptilian persuasion. Check out my most recent Wild Adventure below--Big Fissure Cave!

Check out more of Wild Adventures with Steve .

If you are looking for an adventure- filled, all-inclusive rustic mountain vacation complete with country-gourmet food, high adventure, farm animals, s'mores and wildlife study then you owe it to yourself to check out Earthshine Mountain Lodge--you will be glad you did!