Visit us at:
568 Tempe Wick Road
Morristown, NJ 07960
Mail us at:
P.O. Box 300
New Vernon, NJ 07976
Call us at:
(973) 538-3500
FAX:
(973) 538-5300
CMA Visual Tour Stop #4
Wood Frog, photo by Blaine Rothauser
Vernal pools are filled with water in the Spring, but typically dry out completely by the late summer. They play an important role in the lives of many amphibians, which use them for the reproductive stage of their life. Frogs, salamanders and toads can breed and lay eggs without fear of predatory fish and insects. The wood frog is especially fond of these pools.
A biological inventory is being done in the hopes of finding a population of blue-spotted salamanders, a state endangered amphibian whose habitat closely resembles that of the CMA.
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