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Once Virginia nights turn cold, a turtle that is still healing cannot safely go back outside. How wild box turtles brumate, why our patients stay warm and active instead, what winter care takes, and meet Mira, who is wintering with us.

On Friday, November 6, we're joining Turtle Survival Alliance at Afterglow Brewing for a fundraiser supporting turtle conservation. Why we partner with TSA, what they do, and how to round up for turtles all November.

The software we use would cost more per year at retail than our entire annual budget. We pay almost none of it, because a lot of companies give this away to nonprofits. A field guide to the free and discounted tools, shortest path first.

A single geotagged photo can lead a poacher straight to a wild turtle, and turtle trafficking is happening right now in Virginia, Maryland, and the Carolinas. Why we blur the details, and how you can share turtles responsibly too.

Wildlife care is not a domain where an AI can afford to make things up. Here's why we built a strictly grounded AI assistant for our rehabbers, and how retrieval-augmented generation makes it trustworthy.

How we used Claude, Anthropic's AI assistant, to turn handwritten field notes into a working spreadsheet, catch a data entry error, and surface growth insights that were invisible on paper, and why it matters for rehabbers everywhere.