{"id":12828,"date":"2022-10-06T15:54:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T19:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/?p=12828"},"modified":"2022-10-06T21:29:30","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T01:29:30","slug":"kids-release-striped-newts-host-a-video-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/2022-10-06\/kids-release-striped-newts-host-a-video-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids Release Striped Newts, Host a Video About It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"pbs-viral-player-wrapper\" style=\"position: relative; padding-top: calc(56.25% + 43px);\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.pbs.org\/viralplayer\/3072677445\/\" allowfullscreen allow=\"encrypted-media\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Heading out on an Ecoadventure<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhoa, Mr. Rob!\u201d shouts Olivia, \u201cthere are some of those carnivorous plants!\u201d Upon closer inspection, the reddish splotches by our feet are sticky little pink sundews. It\u2019s the kind of moist area plant you might expect just outside an ephemeral wetland. Here in the shadow of a few pines, my son Xavi shows Ryan Means a spider that\u2019s crawling on his hand. We talk plants and animals of the Munson Sandhills as a new batch of striped newts becomes acclimated to the wetland water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wfsu.org\/blog-coastal-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_7816-cropped-small.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.wfsu.org\/blog-coastal-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_7816-cropped-small-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Pink sundew (Drosera capillaris)\" class=\"wp-image-19526\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Pink sundew (<em>Drosera capillaris<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That process is longer than it had been for previous newt releases, as the Coastal Plains Institute has taken a closer look at water chemistry this year. For instance, they\u2019ve found that there\u2019s less oxygen in the water in the early morning. Today, some of the newts they\u2019re releasing are younger larvae with gills, who will take oxygen from that water. So there\u2019s more testing, and waiting, and slowly adding pond water to the newt bucket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A little while ago, CPI and their partners, as well as me and my young crew, were standing around in the wetland while the newts acclimated. Well, my crew was squatting in the water and feeling the mud in their fingers. We were mucking up the water, so anyone not working on the acclimation left. The Munson Sandhills is always a fun place for kids to poke around, whether in or out of a wetland. At present, my crew is keeping occupied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wfsu.org\/blog-coastal-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_7819-cropped-small.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.wfsu.org\/blog-coastal-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_7819-cropped-small-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"A wolf spider guards its egg sac on blades of grass.\" class=\"wp-image-19525\"\/><\/a><figcaption>A wolf spider guards its egg sac on blades of grass.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Introducing Olivia, Max (a.k.a Maxolotl), and Xavi<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>My favorite crew members are those who don\u2019t blink at getting wet or dirty. Today\u2019s crew, in fact, seeks out wet and dirty. That crew is my older son Max and his best friend Olivia (both aged 11), and my younger son Xavi (8). They tell the story of today\u2019s striped newt release through video. Maybe I\u2019m&nbsp;<em>their&nbsp;<\/em>crew on this shoot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, we\u2019ll talk about CPI\u2019s latest striped newt release, through their perspective and mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-text-color has-background\">Click here to read the rest of the story about Rob&#8217;s Ecoadventure with three kids and a whole bunch of Striped Newts.<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heading out on an Ecoadventure \u201cWhoa, Mr. Rob!\u201d shouts Olivia, \u201cthere are some of those carnivorous plants!\u201d Upon closer inspection, the reddish splotches by our feet are sticky little pink sundews. It\u2019s the kind of moist area plant you might expect just outside an ephemeral wetland. 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