{"id":15238,"date":"2020-08-01T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/?p=15238"},"modified":"2025-08-01T11:08:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T15:08:06","slug":"a-moment-in-the-wild-release-moment-of-hellbenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/a-moment-in-the-wild-release-moment-of-hellbenders\/","title":{"rendered":"A Moment in the Wild: Release Moment of Hellbenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this &#8220;A Moment in the Wild&#8221; episode, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.depts.ttu.edu\/provost\/bios\/rod-williams.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rod Williams<\/a>, Purdue professor of wildlife science, talks about the conservation efforts to save the North America&#8217;s giant salamander, the hellbender.\u00a0 Walk with Rod through Purdue Forestry and Natural Resources&#8217; facilities and see how they are raised and released in the few clean rivers and streams that they can still be found.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Moment in the Wild: Release Moment of Hellbenders\" width=\"670\" height=\"377\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/727eOoPuT2w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions regarding wildlife, or other natural resource topics, feel free to contact us by using our <a title=\"Ask an Expert\" href=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/got-nature-blog\/ask-an-expert\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ask an Expert<\/a> web page.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Resources<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLgoGnq-fak7UMBcQ-RiRsbFUqVjldrvW-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Moment in the Wild<\/a>, Playlist, Purdue Extension &#8211; Forestry and Natural Resources<br \/>\nHelp the Hellbender, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLgoGnq-fak7XTV-p8jV7d0jjCO6aOeOSq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Playlist<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.ag.purdue.edu\/extension\/hellbender\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Website<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/edustore.purdue.edu\/fnr-573-w.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Nature of Teaching: Adaptations for Aquatic Amphibians<\/a>, The Education Store, Purdue Extension resource center<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/edustore.purdue.edu\/fnr-544.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How Our Zoos Help Hellbenders<\/a>, The Education Store<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/edustore.purdue.edu\/item.asp?Item_Number=FNR-532-W\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hellbenders Rock!<\/a>, The Education Store<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.depts.ttu.edu\/provost\/bios\/rod-williams.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rod Williams<\/a>, Professor of Wildlife Science<br \/>\nPurdue University Department of Forestry and Natural Resources<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this &#8220;A Moment in the Wild&#8221; episode, Rod Williams, Purdue professor of wildlife science, talks about the conservation efforts to save the North America&#8217;s giant salamander, the hellbender.\u00a0 Walk with Rod through Purdue Forestry and Natural Resources&#8217; facilities and see how they are raised and released in the few clean rivers and streams that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,45,54],"tags":[1184,1190,845,256,1149,196,232],"class_list":["post-15238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aqua","category-howto","category-wildlife","tag-a-moment-in-the-wild","tag-conservation-efforts","tag-endangered","tag-fnr","tag-fnr-ext","tag-hellbender","tag-help-the-hellbender","audience-for-enthusiasts","audience-for-homeowners","audience-for-landowners","audience-for-professionals"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15238"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34189,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15238\/revisions\/34189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}