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March 14, 2008January 27, 2012 natureintoaction

Virginia Vernal Pools Program

Took a course on vernal pools at the Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy and Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Studies with Mike Hayslett. After classrom time we went out into the field for the day and night for some herping.

decapitated Spotted Salamander

wood frog egg mass in puddle

spotted salamander eggs and jefferson salamander eggs

Spermataphores

Snapping Turtle

Collect, Observe, Identify, Release

Salamander Shadow

Weighing Salamanders

Taking Measurements and Weight

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You can keep a six-pack of rainbow trout per day currently in NJ's trout season. It's a fun reason to go explore your local rivers. I've been out on the Rockaway, Flatbrook, Musky and So. Branch and kept a few for the smoker.

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Trout season opened this morning in NJ with a limit of 6 stocked rainbow trout per licensed fisherman per day. It's a sportsman tradition to get out for the 8am opener and embrace the crowds but I avoided much of it with the Ridge and Valley Trout Unlimited Chapter for some catch and release along a semi-private section of the Musconetcong. Later in the day my wife and I harvested limits from an overfull thalweg in the Big Flatbrook. With 500k rainbows stocked there was no rush to catch them.

Thanks to @gregkkoch for capturing the vernal pool party in photographs last evening. The living world is a unique and spactacular marvel and the spring migration of amphibians in our northeastern woodlands offers one of my favorite natural spectacles. The rains brought out Spotted and Jefferson Salamanders as well as Wood Frogs and Spring Peepers in great abundance to mate and lay eggs. Marbled salamander larvae, predacious diving and scavenger beetles, and myriad other macro and micro invertebrates also stirred the water column from top to bottom.

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