How Does a Newt Cross the Road? With Lots of Human Help

Around a hundred miles to the south of Chileno Valley Road, another group of volunteers—the Alma Bridge Newt Patrol—have been painstakingly documenting more than 5,000 newts a year that perish while crossing a 4-mile stretch of road in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Unlike Gale’s brigade, the newt patrol aren’t able to save many newts—it’s illegal […]