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The Human Element

This paper explores the critical influences of land use, urban development, and disturbances on the conservation of urban painted turtles. Key factors discussed include upland protection, open space availability, residential and industrial encroachment, transportation projects, and disturbances from recreational activities. The document highlights pressing issues such as mortality from fishing activities, excessive human interaction, and disease spread. It also proposes actionable solutions like maintenance work, careful timing of interventions, facility relocation, and strategies to minimize human impact on turtle habitats.

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The Human Element

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  1. The Human Element Land use, disturbance and other factors affecting urban painted turtles

  2. Land use: upland protection?

  3. Open space?

  4. Residential development

  5. Industrial use

  6. Transportation projects

  7. Streamside plantings

  8. Disturbance by Paddlers

  9. Hooking mortality

  10. Too much love

  11. Infectious disease

  12. Food web?

  13. Solutions: Maintenance work • Timing • “Round-up” • Observing

  14. Facility relocation • Make poaching harder • Move paddlers off slough • Redirect walkers and anglers

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