ALBANY, N.Y.—(ENEWSPF)–November 21, 2014. A coalition of New York scientists, citizens and environmental groups filed a petitiontoday asking the New York Department of Environmental Conservation to award state endangered species protection to the eastern hellbender, a type of salamander that can grow up to 2 feet long. Hellbenders have traditionally lived in the Allegheny and Susquehanna river drainages of southeast and central New York, but their populations have dropped by nearly half in the…
