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If you think the Magic Twins are having all the fun, here's your chance to get in on it! Find out how to organize a school, church or family outing to help us save the California Tiger Salamander. Quiz Time!

So, do you think you know everything there is to know about the California Tiger Salamander and vernal pools? Try out our online quiz and test your knowledge! The California Tiger Salamander

Click here to learn about why this fascinating creature is threatened, where it lives, how it lives its life and why we need to establish new vernal pools for it.

Saving the California Tiger Salamander

Vernal Pools

This is just the place to learn about what we are doing to help preserve the endangered California Tiger Salamander and how you can help us do it!

Copyright © 2004, Magic, Inc.
Salamander image (top left):
Copyright © 2002, William Flaxington
Salamander image (top right):
Gerald and Buff Corsi, Copyright © 1999, California Academy of Sciences

Vernal PoolVernal Pools

Vernal pools are essential to the survival of the California Tiger Salamander and a number of other species
Vernal Pools, Butte County
Robert A.Schlising,
Copyright © Studies from the HerbariumPhoto Origin:

This photo originally appeared in "Vernal Pool Plants -- Their Habitat and Biology", edited by Diane H. Ikeda and Robert A. Schlising and published in 1990 by Studies from the Herbarium. The original caption on the photo was "Richvale Vernal Pools, Butte County, April 1978."

All about Vernal Pools

The California Tiger Salamander cannot survive without vernal pools! Here we will tell you what makes vernal pools a unique habitatHabitat

The area or environment where a particular species lives and why they are so important for salamanders.