A sign in the Scotia Game Lands in Centre County reminds visitors to be careful and keep an eye out for amphibians. In the early spring, they travel from the woods to the vernal pools, temporary bodies of water, where they mate.
A wood frog in one of the vernal pools in the Scotia Game lands in Centre County. Vernal pools are temporary bodies of water that play an important ecological role.
Jim Julian, an assistant professor of biology at Penn State Altoona, holds a small frog during a March 2019 tour of vernal pools in Centre County. Vernal pools are temporary ponds that provide breeding grounds for some species of frogs, salamanders and other animals.
