Waterfront landowners eventually discover that snapping turtles, beavers, and other aquatic pests are not just background wildlife, they are engineers and scavengers that can reshape a pond, flood a ...

Q: We have fish and plants in our backyard pond, but now we would like to add turtles and dragonflies. How do we get them in the pond, and are they safe to have? A: Some wild animals will find their ...

No one believed me when I told them I’d hooked a snapping turtle while reeling in a palm-sized bluegill. You can’t blame them, since we were in Southern Utah – not exactly a hotspot for either species ...