But the 20 visitors gathered on the lower slopes of Sonoma Mountain on an overcast morning in early March understood they were special: vernal pools—vital features of the California landscape that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On a spring hike in the woods, one sure way to amaze a child (or a grownup!) is to discover a red eft along the trail. Glowing red ...

March, thousands of salamanders emerged from their underground burrows across Central New York. They crawled over the cold, ...

Puddle or vernal pool? Take a closer look to find out. Vernal pools, Michigan’s fantastical temporary wetlands, are teeming with life. They’ve earned the nickname, “powerhouse puddles” from the state ...

For just one or two nights each spring, spotted salamanders emerge from underground and go in search of vernal mating pools.

One of my favorite memories was when we first moved to Maine, over 30 years ago, and discovered vernal pools (our house was surrounded by them). Vernal pools are seasonal forested wetlands that fill ...

SOUTHWICK — Vernal pools serve as important incubators for the reproduction of a variety of amphibians and because this is the time of year they spring to life, Conservation Commission Coordinator ...

In mid/late April to May in the Northern Lower Michigan Peninsula, vernal pools begin to wake, filling the woods with a quack like call from wood frogs searching for a mate. Fairy shrimp, daphnia, ...

From a distance, a vernal pool doesn’t look like much: Just a shallow, murky pond, sometimes no bigger than a bedroom, with soggy edges surrounded by the still-brown woods of early Michigan springtime ...

On a spring hike in the woods, one sure way to amaze a child (or a grownup!) is to discover a red eft along the trail. Glowing red-orange in the leaf litter, these tiny creatures light up the forest ...