This is the most exciting sign in the world to see! Well for me anyways 
I got to go on an awesome trip, not to far away from where I live, to see painted turtles In their natural habitat! The picture above is one of the signs we saw on the way home.
So we went to this long lake with these people who study the turtles, (Also that are friends of my aunt) on their boat and we checked all the turtle traps. (they don’t kill them, they just trap them to record shell length and stuff like that, then they release them after a few minutes. They also check the traps every day so the turtles don’t starve). So we checked the first trap and it was empty, but the second one had a huge western painted turtle. I had never seen a turtle (other than sea turtles) that big. The people who studied turtles said that was pretty much as big as painted turtles get and that this one was very old. The red coloring on the plastron (bottom of shell) had for some reason worn off. Maybe because of age, but none of us knew.
I got to hold the turtle as he recorded the shell length, width, weight, and height of the turtle. She was a female. I knew, because of the short claws, and short, thin tail, and the size. I was very surprised at how calm the turtle was for the whole time. She was very relaxed and had her head and limbs out almost all the time. (Usually they retract into their shells when they feel threatened). After we were finished, I carefully set her in the water beside the boat, and without any panic she slowly swam away along the surface so we could watch. When she was ten feet away from the boat she popped her head up and looked back at us. Then quietly submerged.
This was an awesome experience for me!
