'The residents of Westwinds next step will be organizing some protests by the flashing crosswalk to show we are not giving up until these requests are addressed.'
On Sunday, July 30, 2023, Elaine Evelyn Drake, Bismarck, ND, formerly of Detroit Lakes, MN, went to her heavenly home surrounded by family at the age of 90.
IMAGE: Sean Giery, Penn State
The research team found that salamander population sizes and pond chemistry remained stable over the last three decades. When averaged across the region, the overall frequency of each egg color morph also remained the same about 70% white egg masses in both 1990 and 2020 but in many cases the frequency within individual ponds changed drastically.
“At the scale of individual ponds, it’s an extremely dynamic system,” said Giery. “They don’t just reach one frequency and stay there. By focusing on individual ponds rather than just the region as a whole, we could tease apart what is driving these changes in population frequencies. In this case, we found two opposing evolutionary processes selection and drift.”