Staten Island Advance

Endangered turtle may slow progress of controversial BJ’s development

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- After more than a year of community opposition to a commercial development planned for a site next to a wetland area in Mariners Harbor, the biggest obstacle the developers now ...
Staten Island Advance

Endangered turtle undetected, so BJ’s development enters public comment period

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- After extensive surveys found there was no presence of an endangered turtle, a commercial development planned for a site next to a wetland area in Mariners Harbor has entered ...
New York Post

An elusive turtle is stopping a multi-million dollar development

This creature sleeps most of the year, buries itself in swamp muck, fits in the palm of your hand — and can stop a $40 million, 1,400-job superstore development dead in its tracks. Meet the ...
insider.si.edu

Turtles of the United States and Canada / Carl H. Ernst, Roger W. Barbour, and Jeffrey E. Lovich

Identification of turtles -- Key to the turtles of the United States and Canada -- Chelydridae: snapping turtles -- Chelydra serpentina, snapping turtle -- Macroclemys temminckii, alligator snapping ...