They’d hoped for a warm, sunny day Saturday to celebrate the opening of Hellbender Preserve and Trail. What they got was a ...

Hellbenders are excellent indicators of water quality, as they require clean, well-oxygenated streams to thrive. However, hellbender populations have declined over the last century due to habitat ...

Legend has it the Eastern hellbenders slithered here straight from hell and But in the age of humans, that evolutionary asset ...

They’ve undergone drastic population declines across their range in the eastern United States and face a long list of serious threats, including habitat destruction and pollution ... Since the agency ...

This column has been updated to correct an inaccurate date that was cited in an earlier version. By now, the story of Hurricane Helene is a tragically familiar one: the endless rain, the swollen ...

Debris removal following Tropical Storm Helene needs to be done more carefully to not destroy high-priority habitat and ...

She added protecting ecosystems and habitat for the hellbender will also protect habitat for other organisms. "It's really important for the Eastern hellbender to make it on the endangered species ...

Hellbender in the Blue is also heading out on the festival tour ... The Nature Conservancy and others have undertaken to protect/restore their populations and the efforts to remove dams from their ...

"It helps prevent flooding. For watershed coordinators, trying to help preserve hellbender habitat. Hellbenders are sensitive to sediment loads, so by reducing the bank erosion, and reducing ...

Allen Family Foundation to research hellbender habitat and behavior, plus another $800,000 from the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation and the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources.