Georgia and Florida farms and cities are still assessing the damage from Hurricane Michael, and beginning to put things back together. The storm also affected natural places and wild animals, and biologists are evaluating those impacts.
Take the frosted flatwoods salamander, a sleek little silver and black animal that used to live in the sandy coastal plain in Georgia and other Southern states, where the longleaf pine forests grew.
Now, there are only a few places where the salamanders live in the wild, including just one in Georgia, at Ft. Stewart.
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