The Eastern Box Turtle resides over most of the southern two-thirds of the Commonwealth. Its range in the west also reaches northward into the Lake Erie Basin. During the hot, steamy months of summer, the Eastern Box Turtle actively seeks out a swampy area where it burrows in the cooling retreat of logs or rotting vegetation. illustration-Tom Duran photo-Joe Bartronis PFBC website: www.fishandboat.com Pennsylvania Angler & Boater * January/February 2015 25http://www.fishandboat.com