newts

An unusual beginning of the newt season

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...

100 Public Comments: Speaking for the Imperiled Newts of Santa Clara County’s Lexington Reservoir

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

2017-2021 newt patrol survey report

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

How it all started

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

Where we are now

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

Other roadkills

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

A little bit of information about newt biology

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

Important links

To learn more about pacific newts and about our project: You can view all our data under our iNaturalist umbrella project Alma Bridge...