Hey, Chris here for Conservation Cooperative.

Have you ever caught yourself saying or doing something exactly like your parents?

It's happening to me more and more.

You might be wondering, how does this relate to a podcast about conservation?

Well, when I was a kid, my dad would pull over to the side of the road

anytime he saw a turtle attempting to cross, especially snapping turtles. This could be on the way

to school, to an appointment, or when we were already running late for something. Yeah, I'm doing the

same thing now. I think my kids thought it was really cool at first, but as they've gotten older and now have places to be themselves, they just are not as into it.

I can't help it, though.

In the case of Snappers, nature is driving females to leave their aquatic environment where basically nothing messes with them,

to then have to contend with a totally unnatural landscape fraught with peril, walls, fences,

buildings, pavement, and of course automobiles, which often is where their journey ends.

Music their journey ends. I suspect there are a lot of people like my dad and I out there who are compelled to take some

level of action when they see an animal crossing the road, whether that be simply

slowing down for a moment or doing a little bit more, whether it's compassion, confronting a sense

of our own mortality, or something along the lines of a recognition of the intersection

between the human and animal worlds.

That intersection is one that we as hunters and anglers know all too well.

I mean, let's be honest.

We're kind of sensitive to the loss of habitat and those wild places we like to linger in.

That sensitivity is one of the reasons why BHA chapters around the country

and right here in the Northeast are interested in supporting sensible policy for the research

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