Skyline’s lost salamanders: Forgotten wetlands and the fight for restoration

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Skyline High School students collecting data during their annual pond project testing the school’s pond water quality. 1st of 2 partsBy Ashley Han and Olivia WattersEvery year, Skyline High School students go salamander hunting. AP Environmental Sciences (APES) students in this Ann Arbor school have heard too much about the school wetlands’ rare salamanders to not investigate for themselves. After the restoration work was completed, the city received five years of funding to study all species on the Skyline wetlands. The 2006 herpetological survey report identified continued monitoring of the Skyline wetlands as “imperative to measure the success of the site” and essential to species survival.