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Eco Report’s Kalynn Huffman Brower discusses the Hellbender Salamander in this week’s In Nature.

The Boston Gazette coined the term “gerrymandering,” in 1812, after then-Governor of Massachusetts, Elbridge Gerry. As League of Women Voter of Bloomington-Monroe County President Ann Birch explains, Gerry infamously signed a bill that redistricted the state, creating a political district map that was so curvy and complex that people said it looked like a giant salamander—a Gerrymander! A Minute of Civics …