Laura Deming looks under a coverboard for red-backed salamanders.
Laura Deming looks under a coverboard for red-backed salamanders. Credit: —PHOTO COURTESY KAREN SEAVER

The Harris Center for Conservation Education in Hancock hosted a “Surveying for Salamanders” event Tuesday to monitor salamanders at the center’s long-term study plots. The work was part of SPARCnet, a national research effort aimed at understanding the effects of climate change on red-backed salamanders.

For information, visit harriscenter.org/sparcnet.