Survival of the ‘Frosties’
<p>Example: Of the 65 freshwater ponds sampled this spring at St. Marks, salamanders showed up at 29 of them.</p>
<p>“That’s a pretty decent number,” says Chloë Dubben, a biological technician who recently left the Service. “It’s very exciting that, at one of those ponds, we’ve never caught salamanders before. It looks like we’re starting to rebound from the hurricane.”</p>
<p>Michael was its name, and it was a Category 5 brute that pummeled the Panhandle in 2018 and, in addition to 16 deaths and $25 billion in damage, inundated egg-friendly ponds with salt water. Sallie numbers plummeted after the storm.</p>
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