Burne said state regulations require a 100-foot buffer around vernal pools, but salamanders are traveling 600 to 700 feet from the pools to find places to live outside of the breeding season ...

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 ...

With spring underway it’s time to take a look at an ecosystem that only lasts for a short period of time called a Vernal Pool. These bodies of water will dry up in the summer, but are necessary ...

I asked. “ Yes, we are at a beautiful vernal pool and a deciduous forest looking for salamanders and frogs tonight,” Weiler said, smiling. It seemed she was in her happy place.

As the breeding ground for salamanders, vernal pools are an essential foundation of animal life in the forest. Protecting woodlands— and their life-giving vernal pools— is a big part of what ...

Vernal pools are seasonal wetlands that can fill with water during winter and spring rains. As the water slowly evaporates from these shallow depressions in the land, rings of endemic and rare flowers ...

This is Episode Three of a four-part Fascination on vernal pools. You can listen to Episode One here and Episode Two here. Adam Wall: Well, welcome Christopher, behind the scenes here in Crustacea ...

Vernal pools dotting the base landscape create a vital environment for hatching, breeding and dying before they dry up for the season, the life cycles in their micro-ecosystems coming and going as ...

A: Vernal pools are a type of temporary wetland that support many native animal and plant species in our state, including the California tiger salamander, vernal pool fairy shrimp, and annual ...

AquAlliance is a non-profit public benefit corporation established to defend northern California waters and to challenge threats to the hydrologic health of the northern Sacramento River watershed to ...

Eagle Scout candidate Dylan Kearse and a local environmental group, The Chaparral Lands Conservancy, have completed a new viewing deck over a vernal pool wetland on the Carmel Mountain Preserve in … ...