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From: Heather Bush-Porco
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Homewood, IL
Hi.My daughter found a turtle yesterday in the middle of the street in a residential area in Frankfort, IL while at her Grandparents house. She moved the turtle out of harms way but it just kept returning to the center of the road.Long story short it is now at my home, in Homewood, IL.I would like to do what's best for this animal.Should we build it an outdoor habitat here, bring it back to where we found it? Please help...!

 
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From: Laura Kammin
Visiting Extension Specialist, Pollution Prevention
Extension-Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program
lkammin@illinois.edu
Can you e-mail me a photo of the animal? If it is a native species it should be taken back to the location where it was found.

 
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