About 900 Eastern box turtles have been relocated from the area of a major Maryland highway under construction.
Since 2007, volunteers, trained dogs and state contractors have been looking for the turtles to remove them from the path of construction equipment building the Intercounty Connector.
Officials from the Maryland State Highway Administration announced the results of the turtle rescue at an Earth Day event last week.
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