{"id":208,"date":"2012-01-25T15:28:03","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T22:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/?p=208"},"modified":"2012-01-25T15:28:03","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T22:28:03","slug":"learn-about-native-turtle-conservation-feb-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/2012\/01\/25\/learn-about-native-turtle-conservation-feb-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn about native turtle conservation Feb. 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Native turtle conservation is the subject of a presentation on Feb. 8 in Portland<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oregon Wildlife (Oregon Wildlife Heritage Foundation) invites you to learn about Oregon\u2019s native turtles\u2015 the western pond and western painted\u2015 at a free presentation by Dan Rosenberg of the Oregon Wildlife Institute. The presentation will be held at the Ecotrust Building in Portland\u2019s Pearl District. A reception begins at 6 p.m. The lecture at 6:30 p.m. Admission is free; registration is required. Register online at the Foundation\u2019s website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.owhf.org\/discoveringwildlife\">www.owhf.org\/discoveringwildlife<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Attendees will learn about the state\u2019s two native turtle species and efforts to protect and enhance populations in the Portland area.\u00a0 The presentation includes information for landowners about voluntary conservation actions that can help native turtles.\u00a0 Like many of the world\u2019s freshwater turtles, Oregon\u2019s turtle populations are declining due to habitat loss, degradation of nesting areas by invasive plants, competition from invasive turtles, nest predation, and predation on young turtles by invasive aquatic species.<\/p>\n<p>Both the western painted and western pond turtle are listed in the Oregon Conservation Strategy as species in need of help.<\/p>\n<p>For more information or questions, contact the Foundation at (503) 255-6059. The talk will be held at the Billy Frank Jr. Conference Center of the Ecotrust Building in Portland\u2019s Pearl District, 721 NW Ninth Avenue, Portland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Native turtle conservation is the subject of a presentation on Feb. 8 in Portland Oregon Wildlife (Oregon Wildlife Heritage Foundation) invites you to learn about Oregon\u2019s native turtles\u2015 the western pond and western painted\u2015 at a free presentation by Dan Rosenberg of the Oregon Wildlife Institute. The presentation will be held at the Ecotrust Building&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/2012\/01\/25\/learn-about-native-turtle-conservation-feb-8\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1783,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1174190,1174192],"tags":[502,3445],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-wildlife","tag-events","tag-wildlife"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1783"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}