Hellbenders may not be pretty to everyone, but these strictly aquatic salamanders are as interesting as their awesome name implies ... They’ve undergone drastic population declines across their range ...

Since 2006, the Lycoming College Clean Water Institute (CWI) has been studying and working to conserve the Eastern hellbender, a species of giant salamander native to the eastern United States.

range-wide protections were initially denied. A court ruling mandated a reevaluation, culminating in this new proposal. A hellbender salamander peeps its head out from under a rock. After years of ...

The hellbender, the largest species of salamander ... largely because the salamanders have a huge range across 15 eastern U.S. states, from Georgia to New York. However, they’re successfully ...

The species has existed for millions of years, but the salamanders are threatened by poor water quality and populations have drastically declined. Hannah Woodburn holds an eastern hellbender ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) proposed protections for eastern hellbender salamanders under the ... River received protection while wide-range protections were denied.