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How to Manage Forests in the Land of an Mountain Salamander

How to Manage Forests in the Land of an Mountain Salamander

by Joeby Ragpa - Dec. 28, 2022
Mountain salamander

What are the impacts of wildfire on the Sacramento Mountain salamander? These are some of the questions that Dr. Nancy Karraker and students in her lab at the University of Rhode Island, including a recent graduate student, Ryan Healey, and a future student, Marissa Ardovino, are trying to answer with collaborator Dr. Rachel Loehman, a fire ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. Answers will come from the team’s extensive mark-recapture and occupancy surveys at sites in the Sacramento and White mountains in southeastern New Mexico and associated data on microclimate, forest characteristics, and fire history.

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