Craig Pittman

6 days ago | thebradentontimes.com | Craig Pittman |Mitch Perry |Mitch Maley |Meredith Kolodner

Restoration work is focused on everything from a tiny salamander in the Panhandle to the massive Everglades Before last week, I’d never heard of the frosted flatwoods salamander. Now that I have, I think it’s kind of cool. It’s a wiggly little amphibian with black-and-white stripes, sort of like if you crossed a zebra with one of those lizards that race across your porch. These salamanders used to live all over the South. Now they’ve vanished from most of the places where they once existed....