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Ben Stegenga

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Technician Spotlight: Kira Cates on Spotted Turtle Telemetry, Nesting, and Babies

  • ByBen Stegenga
  • October 16, 2025
Views:240 views Spotted Turtle – Kira Cates It’s been a long, intense spring-and-summer Spotted Turtle field season, and…
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Spotted Turtle on forest floor.
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Spotted Turtle Telemetry & Nest Monitoring

  • ByBen Stegenga
  • August 12, 2025
Views:183 views https://youtu.be/Ez1ltHLNRUA Since March, Ben and Kira have been working hard tracking Spotted Turtles and protecting nests…
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Technician Spotlight: Emma Kendrick on Finding New Populations of Spotted Turtles in Georgia

  • ByBen Stegenga
  • June 14, 2025
On this technician spotlight, Emma Kendrick shares her field season highs and lows searching for elusive Spotted Turtles—and helping discover two new populations in Georgia.
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From Notes From an Alligator Den, pictured here is an American Alligator basking on a log.
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Notes from an Alligator Den

  • ByBen Stegenga
  • April 15, 2025
Views:242 views The spring field season is in full swing now. Indigo snake surveys have been completely wrapped…
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2025 Year of the Wood Snake, featuring Tropidophis melanurus
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2025 The Year of the Wood Snake

  • ByBen Stegenga
  • January 29, 2025
Views:382 views Tropidophis melanurus – Photo by Jake Scott Happy Lunar New Year! Today marks the beginning of…
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Gopher Tortoises are a keystone species. Pictured here is a Gopher Tortoise coming out of its burrow.
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In a Hole in the Ground, There Lived a Tortoise…and So Much More.

  • ByBen Stegenga
  • January 15, 2025
It’s well known that Gopher Tortoises are a keystone species in the dry upland habitats of the Longleaf Pine Ecosystem. Over 350 species rely upon them or their burrows in some way, but what does that actually look like?
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Finding indigo snake eggs in the wild - pictured here next to a ruler for size reference.
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Finding Indigo Snake Eggs in the Wild

  • ByBen Stegenga
  • November 15, 2024
Views:39 views Ben and Jesus have just kicked off our 2024-2025 indigo snake survey season, and while it’s…
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Monitoring invasive snake parasites.
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Collaborative Science to Monitor Invasive Snake Parasites

  • ByBen Stegenga
  • August 15, 2024
Views:311 views Ben holds up a freshly collected fecal sample from Eastern Coachwhip (Masticophis flagellum flagellum) that will…
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