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A city in Michigan's Upper Peninsula is closing a portion of a road every night in order to protect migrating salamanders.

MARQUETTE, Mich. (AP) — An Upper Peninsula city is closing a portion of a road to vehicular traffic every night to protect migrating salamanders. The city of Marquette is closing a portion of Peter White Drive in Presque Isle Park from 8 p.m.

Closures will be up until at least April 15 for migrating salamanders.

cbleck@miningjournal.net THE SOUTHWEST BEND of Peter White Drive from the MooseWood Nature Center to the gate north of the Presque Isle Park pavilion continues to be closed to vehicular traffic to help blue-spotted salamanders safely migrate. The section will be closed daily from 6 p.m. to 8 a.m. until the anticipated end of the migration on April 30. (Photo courtesy of the Superior Watershed Partnership) MARQUETTE — There still are plenty of blue-spotted creatures on the move in Presque Isle Park. In cooperation with the Superior Watershed Partnership and the Northern Michigan University D...

cbleck@miningjournal.net The southwest bend of Peter White Drive from the MooseWood Nature Center to the gate north of the Presque Isle Park pavilion continues to be closed to vehicular traffic to help blue-spotted salamanders safely migrate. The section will be closed daily from 6 p.m. to 8 a.m. until the anticipated end of the migration on April 30. (Photo courtesy of the Superior Watershed Partnership) MARQUETTE — There still are plenty of blue-spotted creatures on the move in Presque Isle Park. In cooperation with the Superior Watershed Partnership and the Northern Michigan University D...