These salamanders spend most of their lives underground, in crayfish burrows, root channels or burrows of their own making. They emerge in the late fall to migrate to small, isolated seasonal wetlands ...

The pools dry out under the summer sun and are devoid of predators, making them ideal nurseries for tadpoles and salamander larvae. As we walked, Heady pointed out a wide range of other spring ...

If temperatures continue to climb each year, Zagorski said, the vernal pools could dry out before all the salamanders have time to breed. “We want people to enjoy nature and enjoy the ...

These ephemeral wetlands form in depressions in forests or ridge lines and offer essential breeding habitat to amphibians and invertebrates, including wood frogs, spotted salamanders and fairy shrimp.