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,...
The Newt Patrol is a group of citizen scientists in the South Bay. We have been surveying newt roadkills near Lexington Reservoir since 2017. We have documented over 20,000 dead newts so far, representing one of the highest rates of amphibian roadkill mortality known worldwide.
This project aims to raise awareness of this problem and provide a rigorous database that could be used by the authorities to implement mitigation measures.