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Originally Published: November 16, 2017 <\/p>\n\n\n

Deep in the Apalachicola National Forest, the Bradwell Bay Wilderness is the best remaining population of an animal in decline- the southern dusky salamander. Here, we learn the story of Bruce Means’s first salamander discovery.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

Is there something you love doing enough to do it for over fifty years?  Some do, and that\u2019s why I\u2019m here today.  I\u2019m following Bruce Means into a titi swamp in the Bradwell Bay Wilderness.  He\u2019d scour this place as a Florida State University graduate student in the 1960s, and today we\u2019re on the same mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re on the hunt for southern dusky salamanders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s the middle of the summer, and it\u2019s been a rainy one.  There\u2019s  water on the ground, unlike when we hiked out here last December with Dr. Means\u2019s son, Ryan, and his family<\/a>.  It\u2019s a little higher than Dr. Means likes for salamander searching.  He works the edge of the water with a dip net, raising a scoop of leaves to his face and picking through it.  No luck so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The yellow flies are biting, but it\u2019s not as bad as in other years, Dr. Means says.  We haven\u2019t followed the Florida National Scenic Trail into the heart of the swamp, where the old, big trees are.  We followed it to where the pine flatwoods transition to wetland, splashing under a canopy of black and red titi.  Then Dr. Means took us off trail, which, when flooded, looks the same as the trail.  I can see why there are so many stories of people getting lost here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Click here to read the rest of Rob’s post about the Southern Dusky Salamander at the WFSU Ecology blog.<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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