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Red-Backed Salamander

Posted by Fred Nentwick,
North Country explorer from Gouverneur
April 29, 2019

On my last herping trip for my herpetology class we went to the glenmeal state forest to try to find evidence of herps in an evergreen forest rather than a deciduous forest. We didn't have much luck at first compared to a deciduous forest. After about an hour of walking through the woods I found this red-backed salamander (plethoden cinerus) in underneath a log.

Red-Backed Salamander