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For biologist Jessica Ford, pursuing a lifelong interest in herpetology – the study of amphibians and reptiles or, as Ford puts it, “things that live in the mud” – hasn’t always been easy.
For biologist Jessica Ford, pursuing a lifelong interest in herpetology – the study of amphibians and reptiles or, as Ford puts it, “things that live in the mud” – hasn’t always been easy.
Cars are annihilating the tiny amphibians.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pacific-newt-massacre.amp
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With California now facing yearly threats of devastating wildfires, a Dominican University researcher is looking to salamanders as a potential indicator of the fires’ impact on wildlife.
About 5,000 newts are killed every year by cars and bikes on Alma Bridge Road, the park’s only access road. As a herpetologist who has studied human activities’ impacts on amphibians, I find this deeply troubling, in part because it’s entirely avoidable.
https://baynature.org/2021/03/02/santa-clara-county-must-make-alma-bridge-road-safer-for-wildlife/
About 5,000 newts are killed every year by cars and bikes on Alma Bridge Road, the park’s only access road. As a herpetologist who has studied human activities’ impacts on amphibians, I find this deeply troubling, in part because it’s entirely avoidable.
https://baynature.org/2021/03/02/santa-clara-county-must-make-alma-bridge-road-safer-for-wildlife/
Researchers mined crowdsourced photos to figure out how city life suits the southern alligator lizard.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/california-urban-lizards.amp
Disappearance of a species forecasts a desert-like future for the Central Coast.
https://voicesofmontereybay.org/2020/10/30/a-salamander-vanishes/
The California Fish and Game Commission on Wednesday granted temporary endangered species status to the Mojave desert tortoise when it agreed to consider the dusty, armored herbivore as a candidate for permanent listing.
https://phys.org/news/2020-10-imperiled-tortoises-california-endangered-listfor.amp
Legislation signed by Gov Newsom allows Highway 156 Castroville Boulevard interchange project to go ahead by addressing threatened salamander habitat near the project site.