Fri 8/23/13 Noon & 7PM The bad news is Vermont only has 40 species of amphibians and reptiles. The good news is, if you鈥檙e a herpetologist, it鈥檚 easy to get to know a lot about all the snakes, lizards, frogs, turtles and salamanders you鈥檒l encounter here.
Jim Andrews, coordinator of the , will introduce us to a lot of them and explain some of the issues they鈥檙e facing. And Steve Faccio shares information on the vernal pool mapping project being conducted by the .
Also on the program, VPR鈥檚 John Dillon discusses how a weak transmission network could curtail wind projects in the Northeast Kingdom.
Plus, we鈥檒l listen back to voices in the news this week.
