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Spotted Salamander

Posted by Clara Pollard,
North Country explorer from
April 29, 2019 —

It was a cool, mostly cloudy day and I went to Higley Flow State Park with my herpetology class. I flipped over a large, decomposing log and found this adult spotted salamander. It was a female who had already laid her eggs.