Residents await annual crossing of salamanders

http://homepage.mac.com/rwolfert/NatureWebsiteMC/index.html ^ | March 22, 2005

[Calpernia]

Let's see....

Our state is heading for bankruptcy....

We are riddled with gangs and crime....

Our politicians are being investigated and jailed for corruption, so much so, I've not been able to keep my bump list up to date http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1352722/posts New Jersey - Corruption and Scandal BUMP LIST

Yet, let it be known, the Salamandars will live.

[Calpernia]

But, who cries for krill?

[null and void]

*smooch*

[Calpernia]

Smooching up will not get you front row seats to the Salamander crosssing :)

[null and void]

It's a start...

[Calpernia]

See what you can't have?

[Coleus]

and we have the highest rate of teenagers having abortions.

New Jersey, NJ, surpasses all states in teenage abortion rate

don't hunt the black bears and close the roads for the salamanders to cross,  and the children?  oh, we just let them die in abortion mills and offer them no inalienable or constitutional rights.

[blackdog]

Will the state assure a food supply and water for salamanders? Maybe humans can be next?

[Calpernia]

[Calpernia]

The humans will be deprived of food and water because it takes the natural resources away from the salamanders.

Matter of fact, I'm packing my things to go as I speak. I just found a salamander on my sidewalk and he has squatter rights to my home since he is a protected species.

[blackdog]

But if you've spotted a feeding tube on that salamander, you've got a full green light to squash her with extreme predjudice.

[blackdog]

As kids, we enjoyed the salamander treks in suburban Philadelphia in Fairmount Park. We collected them and put them inside our Hotwheels race cars and held races. A few guys loaded them into their Estes Rockets and sent them up for a few G's above some solid rocket fuel. Survivors of the races and rocketships made it into our terrariums with some moss and rotted wood where we dreamed of dinosaurs on the roam while trying to fall off to sleep, which is not easy at age 10 with summer approaching.

[Calpernia]

Oh, I love the nature collecting too.

I'm just not myself and feeling very facetious.

Especially after this thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1369033/posts

[RepubMommy]

I thought salamanders were a different color. Must be all of the pollution here.

[Calpernia]

You should see the red ones. They are pretty.

[Calpernia]

Your nic made me have to ping you here.

[Salamander]

Squeeeeeeal!

They're so CUTE!!!!....:))

[Salamander]

LOL!

It's worse than you know, Calpernia!

Ever since I can remember, I've gone to the top of the mountain which is our local Spotted Salamander crossing and rescued innumerable little critters before the cars got them.
They're easy to see on the road and it's not like they dart out in front of you or anything so I could never understand why people just wouldn't easily drive *around* them.
It's not a busy road and it's only for a week or two, tops.

I'd bring buckets full of salamanders, various species of frogs and toads and lots of turtles home every year.
We have 3 ponds right near my house and I just relocated them.
They adapted to their new territory quite well.
[in the spring, there's a veritable riot of frogs peeping, croaking, chirping and trilling their happy little hearts out]...:)

[Salamander]

If it was an Eastern Spotted, you needn't worry.
They're "mole salamanders" and spend 90% of their lives underground eating worms....:)