You may have heard how blue spotted salamanders go from the woods to the vernal pools to lay eggs every spring at Presqe Isle Park in Marquette.
The park usually closes a road so the salamanders don’t get run over, but the Superior Watershed Partnership’s Kathleen Henry says they are going to build some infrastructure for the salamanders.
“This year and the next few years we’ll be working, we received a grant from the DNR Wildlife Habitat Protection Program to install amphibian tunnels, and so the salamanders and other amphibians can use these tunnels to cross the road.”
Henry says the tunnels will take about a year to install. She says they have worked in other states because the salamanders have the instincts to use the tunnels.
