Watch out for Oregon turtles

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Susan Barnes, conservation biologist for the Oregon Department of Fish and wildlife's Northwest Region, prepares to release a native Oregon western painted turtle into the wild at Rynearson Pond near Gladstone after marking the animal in conjunction with a population survey.