Radio tags help reveal the secret lives of tiger salamanders

Radio tags help reveal the secret lives of tiger salamanders

Where are the salamanders hanging out? Answering that question has been Jake Kushner’s mission — especially in the face of a proposed project by an energy company that will lay a transmission line right through areas where these amphibians are thought to move. “The salamanders are only documented using a small area around vernal pools after they’re done breeding,” Kushner, reptile and amphibian specialist at South Fork Natural History Museum and…