MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • September 27, 2020
The use of tracking dogs to find wood turtles is part of new research being conducted in Maine by biologists and Lindsay Ware, an Ellsworth dog trainer and handler. Ware has used her four scent-tracking dogs for years to help hunters find wounded big-game animals, such as white-tailed deer and black bear. But in the past several months she has helped her year-old Lab learn to locate smaller species for conservation research, specifically wood turtles.