Appreciate Vernal Pools – their time is coming soon

Appreciate Vernal Pools – their time is coming soon! All of us would benefit from a closer connection to nature and Vernal Pools are an important but little known part of the natural world. In today’s world of continuing ecological and other catastrophe, it’s strangely comforting to get out and see the Earth functioning as She should, and has since the glacier’s formed the landscape and then left. Try it this spring! Today’s “Read more” post is short, just enough to pique your interest. Who knows, maybe there is a whole new field of interest just waiting to open up for you!

By their very nature Vernal Pools are ephemeral; melt water forms them and then, by mid or late summer they have dried up, to remain dry until the following spring. This is important to the life that uses Vernal Pools because it means that there are no fish to eat the exposed eggs of frogs or salamanders or their delicate larval forms. The pool jumps to life in the spring and by midsummer most of it has developed through the aquatic part of their life cycles and left. The survivors return in the spring to start the process over again.

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