Heather Bellow reports in The Berkshire Eagle that state Department of Transportation workers began overhauling the dam between Karner Brook and Smiley's Pond in Egremont this week. The Department of Fisheries and Wildlife and other agencies are working with the DOT to make it easier for wildlife to move between the two bodies of water in western Massachusetts. One local resident wearing a “Turtle Man” t-shirt, Ari Zorn, could not be happier about the work to create ramps for the turtles and other critters to get move from the brook to the pond. For years Zorn has been calling state and local officials, pestering them about the dead animals at the intersection of Route 23 and Mount Washington Road. Zorn also started a nonprofit, Friends of Smiley’s Pond, to raise awareness of the problem, and to promote the 33 endangered species including plants and rare birds there. Zorn is happy about the local progress saying, “I fight for things that don’t have a voice.” Read more about this story in The Berkshire Eagle.