On a spring hike in the woods, one sure way to amaze a child (or a grownup!) is to discover a red eft along the trail. Glowing red-orange in the leaf litter, these tiny creatures light up the forest ...

Puddle or vernal pool? Take a closer look to find out. Vernal pools, Michigan’s fantastical temporary wetlands, are teeming with life. They’ve earned the nickname, “powerhouse puddles” from the state ...

When the Northwoods begin to thaw, whimsical creatures like fairy shrimp and spotted salamanders quietly come to life in Michigan’s vernal pools. It’s on us to keep it that way. The water is still—a ...

One of my favorite memories was when we first moved to Maine, over 30 years ago, and discovered vernal pools (our house was surrounded by them). Vernal pools are seasonal forested wetlands that fill ...

BRIDPORT — On the hunt for a set of GPS coordinates, biologists from the Vermont Center for Ecostudies ambled up an untrailed slope of Addison County’s Snake Mountain in late April. After climbing ...

Interested in learning about and protecting one of our most enchanting ecosystems? Training starts this week to become part of the statewide Vernal Pool Patrol program. As the sun warms the forest ...

From a distance, a vernal pool doesn’t look like much: Just a shallow, murky pond, sometimes no bigger than a bedroom, with soggy edges surrounded by the still-brown woods of early Michigan springtime ...

On a rainy spring morning in Strafford, Steve Faccio stood thigh-deep in water, holding what looked like four globes of translucent white jelly speckled with black seeds. Around him, a small group of ...

SOUTHWICK — Vernal pools serve as important incubators for the reproduction of a variety of amphibians and because this is the time of year they spring to life, Conservation Commission Coordinator ...

SAN DIEGO — On the west end of San Diego Miramar College campus is a small Vernal pool preserve. "These are one of the Vernal pools and over here we have a funky little snail. Wow that's cool, and ...