A 1.5" newt trying to cross Alma Bridge Rd. Luckily we found it and moved it safely to the hill side The first 3 months of the 2022-2023...

Concerned Citizens Fight to Reverse Local Extinction Trend, Seek Volunteers Over 100 heartfelt comments were read out loud, one by one,...

The report includes an introduction about Pacific newts biology, their diet and life cycle, and how to distinguish the two species found...

In November 2017, Anne Parsons, a citizen scientist and Midpeninsula Regional Open Space trail patrol volunteer, noticed many dead newts...

Our team of volunteers surveys a 4 miles section of the Alma Bridge Rd once a week during the newt migration season, and twice a week during

In addition to newts, we also document many other roadkills. So far, we documented over 400 individuals of 70 different species. Most...

Two species of newts live on the hills around Lexington Reservoir: California Newt (Taricha torosa) and Rough-skinned Newt (Taricha...

To learn more about pacific newts and about our project: You can view all our data under our iNaturalist umbrella project A support letter by the Santa Clara Valley Bird Alliance and the Sierra Club for a Midpeninsula Open Space Authority meeting on 10/17/2025. Alma Bridge Road Newt Passage Project - Technical Review (Phase I), Alternatives Evaluation / Basis of Design (Phase 3) by AECOM - get the latest info about the newt passage project Check out our sister group in S