A volunteer holds a turtle at the Wetlands Institute shortly before it was to be released back into the wild in Stone Harbor, N.J., Wednesdat, June 8. A class of kindergarten students released 17 turtles that were raised from the eggs of female turtles that were struck and killed by cars.
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A turtle crawls through the grass away from a roadway at the Wetlands Institute in Stone Harbor, N.J., Wednesday, June 8. The program run by the Wetlands Institute, Stockton University and Stone Harbor schools has returned thousands of turtles into the wild over the past 25 years.
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A kindergarten student releases a turtle back into the wild at the Wetlands Institute in Stone Harbor, N.J., Wednesday, June 8. The turtles were either rescued from dangerous places like roadsides or storm drains, or were raised from eggs of turtles killed by cars.
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A turtle crawls through the mud after being released by a kindergarten student at the Wetlands Institute in Stone Harbor, N.J., Wednesday, June 8.
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A kindergarten student releases a turtle back into the wild at the Wetlands Institute in Stone Harbor, N.J., Wednesday, June 8.
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A kindergarten student releases a turtle back into the wild at the Wetlands Institute in Stone Harbor, N.J., Wednesday, June 8.
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Amanda Lyons of the Wetlands Institute holds a turtle shortly before it was to be released back into the wild in Stone Harbor, N.J., Wednesday, June 8.
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A turtle crawls through the grass at the Wetlands Institute in Stone Harbor, N.J., Wednesday, June 8.
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Salvatore Volpe, of Wildwood Crest, N.J., holds a turtle that he witnessed being struck by a car but not killed, and brought it to the Wetlands Institute in Stone Harbor, N.J., Wednesday, June 8.
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Salvatore Volpe shoos a turtle off a roadway in Stone Harbor, N.J., Wednesday, June 8.