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The Florida Wildlife Conservation Commission and its partners work to protect the frosted flatwoods salamander, a fire dependent animal in serious decline. Once common in wetlands throughout the American southeast, it has been reduced to a handful of viable breeding populations in the Apalachicola National Forest and Saint Marks National Wildlife Refuge. We follow biologist Pierson Hill.<\/em><\/p>\n

Crouching in the rain, searching for eggs<\/h2>\n

The dark sky finally opened up, and rain began falling on us as we crouched down in the wet grass, searching for frosted flatwoods salamander eggs. I hear the pitter-patter of raindrops bouncing off of my backpack as I watch Pierson Hill, a biologist for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), carefully extract a cluster of small, shiny eggs. He carefully places the clutch in a plastic sweater box that had been filled with soft, wet mud and presses the outside of the cluster down into the mud to keep them from sliding around during the trip back to the lab. Looking closely, I can see the embryos of baby salamanders wriggling around in the eggs.<\/p>\n

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Pierson Hill pushes away grasses to reveal a cluster of frosted flatwoods salamander eggs<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n
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The egg cluster is gently placed in a mud-lined sweater box to prevent them from drying out and shifting around during transport.<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

Our visit is not the first trip to this pond. Pierson repeats this process tirelessly with a team of field technicians who spend the entire egg-laying season (late fall) crouched in the grass, looking for eggs. Many days are spent in the mud, dodging annoyed cottonmouths, bent over with your face in the grass. Once eggs are eventually found, they are carefully cut away from the vegetation and carefully moved into safekeeping. This is not easy work and requires a lot of time and energy \u2013 for a single salamander species. How important, rare, or valuable must a species be to prompt this level of dedication?<\/p>\n

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Discover what makes this Salamander so special! Check out the rest of Dani Davis’ blog post at the WFSU Ecology Blog.<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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