A Categorical Imperative for Herping
What Immanuel Kant might say about looking for salamanders in urban streams
“You don’t want it to look like a herd of buffalo came through,” was the advice of an old-timer New Jersey herper when he was telling me about a way to find red salamanders (Pseudotriton ruber). Basically you pull up sphagnum moss in boggy areas and look underneath. His point was that you don’t want to tear the habitat to shreds in the process. That was…
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