Mooz the dog helps scientists study threatened turtles

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Bill Parsons and his dog Mooz searching for wood turtles. Their top team member is Mooz, a 9-year-old labradoodle who has been helping his owner, Bill Parsons, find wood turtles for the past five years. Part of the department’s process for tracking wood turtles involves attaching radio transmitters to females to track where they lay their eggs. Now, Parsons and the team instructor, Jake Lammi from Diamond Dog Detection Teams, work together to find wood turtles. He said wood turtles are culturally significant to the tribe because of their origin story.