JBK-Environmental: Midwest National Parks

Showing posts with label Midwest National Parks. Show all posts

Monday, April 17, 2017

Portrait of a painted turtle at Cuyahoga Valley National Park /JIM SCHMIDT

“Try to be like the turtle – at ease in your own shell.” -Bill Copeland

The painted turtle (Chrysemys picta) is the most widespread native turtle of North America. It lives in slow-moving fresh waters, from southern Canada to Louisiana and northern Mexico, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The turtle is the only species of the genus Chrysemys, which is part of the pond turtle family Emydidae. Fossils show that the painted turtle existed 15 million years ago. Four regionally based subspecies (the eastern, midland, southern, and western) evolved during the last ice age. #mondaymotivation

Image: Portrait of a painted turtle at Cuyahoga Valley National Park /JIM SCHMIDT

#animals #reptile #turtle #nature #wildlife

041717

*****

Sunday, April 2, 2017

A Business of Ferrets

#Sunday

From Midwest National Parks:

Did you know that a group of ferrets is called a business? Black-footed ferrets -- agile creatures with masked faces and droopy whiskers -- have been reintroduced in several national parks. Today, in places like Badlands National Park, they once again roam their native prairies. Business as usual...except on Sundays. Take it easy there.#NationalFerretDay

Photo by Kimberly Tamkun, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Park Service

030217

Feral Horses in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park

From Midwest National Parks:

Did you know wild (Feral) horses can be seen in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park? You might even catch a glimpse of a young foal. Foals are horses up to one year old. After a year, they're known as yearlings. Young horses will stay with their natal herd until they are two or three years old.

#MidwestNPS #AprilFools #AprilFoals National Park Service

040217