On a cold April evening, a dozen biologists and conservationists headed into a wooded area of the Middlesex Fells Reservation, over 2,500 acres of forest, wetlands, and hills in portions of Malden, ...

HOLLIS – Until Thursday night, there were just two knee-deep ponds in all New Hampshire where marbled salamanders were known to breed, both of them in Hollis. Mike Marchand, a wildlife biologist with ...

RANDOLPH — Jacob Kubel is a man on a mission. The 36-year-old conservation scientist with the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife’s Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program has ...

Wet winters are a boom for our local amphibians. Winter is the breeding season for many of our salamanders. Venture to bottomland forests fringing our rivers, roll some logs, and you could meet ...

On a chilly morning last week, we were at the Sandy Creek Nature Center in Athens doing some “herping,” or searching for reptiles and amphibians. The term comes from the word herpetology, which means ...