The Badger Army Ammunition Plant was the war machine at the heart of the Sauk Prairie near Baraboo that’s now being dismantled. Although built for war, the plant also sustained a thriving community and not all of it human.
DNR Ecologist Mike Mossman tells us about the rare species of neotenic salamanders who’ve come to call a water reservoir home.
Related Link: “The Salamanders that Refuse to Grow Up” – a story by Wisconsin Life assistant producer, Erika Janik, on Smithsonian.com