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Jeff, I would agree that you could consider softshells to be "locally abundant". While woods are scattered into smaller populations. The major problem is that all the areas that softies are found, while they may contain numerous reproductive adults, they also nest in areas that heavily used by humans. It's tough for a very nervous turtle like a softshell to come up and complete egg-laying while there's motorboats and beachgoers in and around their choice egg-laying sites.
So while there are many adults the number of young may be few at best.
Anyways, I'm sure you know all this anyways!
I just figured they would have been at a similar level of not so great future. Just found it interesting that they weren't!!!
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