Pacific Giant Salamander Sighting: Yerba Buena Nursery, Specializing in California Native Plants and Ferns

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Pacific Giant Salamander at Yerba Buena Nursery

Native Plant Demonstration Garden | Wildlife at Yerba Buena Nursery

News: Pacific Giant Salamander sighting!

(Pacific Giant Salamander, sighted 5/11/07 at YBN)
The Pacific Giant Salamander is in decline due to logging
and industrialization.

(Pacific Giant Salamander, sighted 5/11/07 at YBN)
Ruler next to the salamander shows that it is 12 inches in length.

The Pacific Giant Salamander "prefers unlogged or well-established second growth douglas fir and broadleaf maple forests on slopes. It uses the damp mosses, downed logs and other debris near cold streams and mountain lakes to hide under by day. It is mostly nocturnal but may be out on a damp day in spring. <...> Experts think that the population of Pacific Giant Salamanders is in decline due to development and industry on their habitat." (Ref. naturepark.com)

Found just outside the nursery entrance near our natural spring stream, this Pacific Giant Salamander reminds us of why we never use pesticides or other toxic chemicals anywhere in the nursery vicinity.

For me, the author and initial observer of this event, it is a peak moment to observe this animal in its full size -- as a child studying with a naturalist from the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, I recall vividly the story of the Pacific Giant Salamander, which we searched for in streams, and wondering if I would ever see this mythical beast in its mammoth (for an amphibian) adult size. Now I finally have :)

Interesting fact -- Pacific Giant Salamanders are one of the few animals that eat Banana Slugs.

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