Lake Sweet Interns in Nova Scotia To Study Wood Turtles

Lake Sweet, who was graduated from Mackinac Island Public School in 2004, will be interning in Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia for 10 weeks this summer studying the habitat of wood turtles. She and a professor will be working with the Canadian Department of Natural Resources to find out why conservation efforts to benefit the endangered reptile are not working.

Research will be conducted along the St. Mary's River, which has one of the largest populations of wood turtles in North America, Ms. Sweet said.

She is a junior at Albion College majoring in biology and will incorporate her research this summer into her undergraduate thesis.

Ms. Sweet is the daughter of Laura Eiseler, who teaches second and third grade at Mackinac Island Public School, and she is attending Albion on a scholarship from the Little Stone Church.