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Karen Madorin is a retired teacher, writer, photographer, outdoors lover, and sixth-generation Kansan.

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Sarah Tomke taking a picture of an Eastern hellbender. Credit: Steven Price. Deep in Kentucky’s rivers lives one of North America’s most mysterious creatures—the Eastern hellbender. Growing up to two ...