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How the South Fights Fire with Fire, and What the West Can Learn
Most years Georgia intentionally burns around a million acres of forest. That’s about 30 times the size of California’s prescribed burns. Florida performs prescribed burns over twice that much land. That’s according to data from the national interagency fire center and compiled by the non-profit Climate Central.
Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center May 2019 Newsletter
Welcome to the Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center’s May 2019 Newsletter.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife denies Endangered Species Act protection for eastern hellbenders
Just as the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission has called on the public to help locate and document sightings of the declining population of eastern hellbender salamanders to help in recovery efforts, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decided not to list the salamander as an endangered species.
Researchers study eastern hellbender salamanders parental habits
Unlike most wildlife species, male hellbenders provide exclusive care for their young for an extended period of seven months.
Virginia Tech Researchers Receive NSF Grant to Study Parental Care in Eastern Hellbender Salamanders
William Hopkins, professor of wildlife in the College of Natural Resources and Environment, is the principal investigator on a new grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for $738,817 to study parental care in the eastern hellbender salamander.
Chattanooga Zoo Announces Baby Hellbenders
The Chattanooga Zoo announces the successful hatching of a group of Hellbender eggs collected from the wild here in East Tennessee.
Help the hellbenders: Don't move the rocks
Article from the Asheville Citizen Times
New “Bobscapes” Mobile App Helps Establish National Bobwhite Database
Although the bobwhite is one of the most researched birds in the country and perhaps the world, scientists still don’t have a solid understanding of the quail’s population distribution across its range. To help alleviate this problem, NRCS has been working with Quail Forever and the University of Georgia Gamebird and Managed Ecosystems Lab as part of the Working Lands for Wildlife – Northern Bobwhite Quail Partnership to develop a new mobile app called Bobscapes
