Lost salamanders, forgotten wetlands and the fight for restoration

Skyline High School students collecting data during their annual pond project testing the school’s pond water quality ASHLEY HAN
Skyline High School students collecting data during their annual pond project testing the school’s pond water quality ASHLEY HAN

LANSING

Every year, Ann Arbor’s Skyline High School students go salamander hunting.

Advanced Placement environmental sciences students have heard too much about rare salamanders in the school’s wetlands to not investigate for themselves.

The students, scattered in groups, are armed with nothing more than phone cameras, sketching tools and sharp eyes.

They loop around the woods and wetlands, eyes scour…