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Why a New England city is building tunnels to protect an imperiled salamander

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Keene, New Hampshire is constructing small underpasses to help hybrid Jefferson/blue-spotted salamanders safely cross roads; a similar crossing in Vermont built in 2015 reduced amphibian deaths at that site by 80%.

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