Metrowest Daily News 6/10/12: Volunteers needed for turtle-spotting program. It’s no secret — turtles are slow, and when they sense danger they stop in their tracks and retreat into their shells. So with the region’s busy roads slicing up their wetland homes, they can once again use a little help this egg-laying season — like that afforded by the annual Turtle Roadway Mortality Monitoring Program and volunteers like retired Wayland teacher Emily Norton.