A joint state and federal team of managers and researchers started the Alligator Snapping Turtle captive propagation program in 1999 with the express intent of reintroducing Alligator Snapping Turtles back into areas of Oklahoma and Kansas where they used to occur.Courtesy photo
Submitted articleSpecial to the Tribune Trevor Starks at trevor.starks@ks.gov. Populations of Alligator Snapping Turtles have been declining across the species’ range due to over-harvest and…
