Joe Clemens of Irwin has a dangerous hands-on hobby. Clemens is a fourth-generation turtle noodler, a pursuit where one catches snapping turtles with their bare hands from underwater holes in the ...

Green tufts of algae collect in the beards of Michael and Zac Linne as the brothers, with their bellies in the muddy water, slowly crawl along a shallow drainage ditch that cuts through a Dubois ...

After my column about catching snapping turtles appeared in newspapers around the country, I was inundated with information, on which I was so sorely lacking. I learned how to clean turtles, in many ...