These green-splotched salamanders live only in the Hickory Nut Gorge, a 14-mile-long gorge in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, which is 18 miles south of Asheville and facing rapid development ...

It will now go to the South Carolina Department of Transportation for consideration under its traffic calming guidelines. Salamander Road and many other streets near it are considered state-owned.

These green-splotched salamanders live only in a 14-mile-long gorge in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains ... and biological richness of the Hickory Nut Gorge, which is 18 miles south of Asheville ...