In mid-August I returned to the vernal pool in which I had found abundant salamander egg masses attached in a linear fashion along the many branchings of a limb that had fallen into the pool, when I was conducting surveys with Colin Nevins as he documented and journaled about his family’s 36-acre woodlot for his […]

To begin, I want to clarify something from that previous journal entry. In describing my going into the spotted turtle habitat I call the Far End of the Great Alder Carr after tropical storm Irene had effected a significant recharge I mention the typical flood periods there as having a “… low, steady drift (of […]