{"id":2192,"date":"2017-03-07T15:36:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T20:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catskillwaters.org\/?p=2192"},"modified":"2017-07-18T19:09:20","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T19:09:20","slug":"amphibian-migration-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catskillwaters.org\/journal\/2017\/03\/07\/amphibian-migration-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Amphibian Migration Alert!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the temperature climbs above 40\u02daF and early spring weather brings in rain, we&#8217;ll see forest amphibians emerge from the soil and travel to their breeding pool, often crossing roads and pathways. Luckily for us in the Hudson Valley estuary watershed, there is a program designed to coordinate citizens&#8217; effort with collecting data, mapping, and protecting amphibians in their treacherous journey. It is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dec.ny.gov\/docs\/remediation_hudson_pdf\/amrc2017.pdf\">Amphibian Migration and Road Crossing Project<\/a>, part of a larger Hudson River Estuary Program supported by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dec.ny.gov\/index.html\">New York State Department of Environmental Conservation<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Anyone can volunteer to take part in this program by downloading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dec.ny.gov\/docs\/remediation_hudson_pdf\/amrc2017.pdf\">this instruction<\/a> and collecting data. It takes a bit of motivation to venture out on a wet, cold evening, but it&#8217;s an experience that enriches your life, opening a door to secretive life of these woodland creatures. It is also a sobering experience, bringing the sheer number of casualty up close. You would never drive on a wet spring night casually again\u2014mixed blessings of being a concerned human being.<\/p>\n<p>The program was recently introduced in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/03\/03\/science\/frogs-salamanders-spring.html?emc=eta1&amp;_r=1\">NY Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-excerpt\">As the temperature climbs above 40\u02daF and early spring weather brings in rain, we&#8217;ll see forest amphibians emerge from the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stream-management"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catskillwaters.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/04FROG1-master675.jpeg?fit=675%2C399&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ZCrz-zm","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catskillwaters.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catskillwaters.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catskillwaters.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catskillwaters.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catskillwaters.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/catskillwaters.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2534,"href":"https:\/\/catskillwaters.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192\/revisions\/2534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catskillwaters.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catskillwaters.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catskillwaters.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catskillwaters.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}