"Why is it called Turtle Island?"
It is named after the Native American legend that a great turtle rose up out of the waters after the world was flooded and made the decision to support life's creatures on it's back. American Indians call the earth "turtle island" and so we call our tract of land "Turtle Island Preserve" for we are an earth preserve. In the figurative sense, we are an island of wilderness in a sea of development and destruction.