Saturday, June 17, 2017

"Under Hellbender Bluff" - a watercolor by Nate Dray

"Under Hellbender Bluff"
12 x 16 inches, Watercolor

"Under Hellbender Bluff" watercolor by artist Nate Dray is a view from the creek bottom along the Little Beaver Creek famous for a populatio of hellbender salamanders one of the world's largest extant amphibians.




















Hellbender Bluff is a rocky outcropping along the Little Beaver Creek in Columbiana County Ohio known for hosting one of the largest extant breeding populations of the endangered Hellbender Salamander. They are really big, up to 2 feet, and need clean fast-flowing oxygenated water with lots of rocks to hide under. Considered a reliable indicator species, Hellbenders can't survive in polluted waters.

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