The LA Times reported on efforts to reintroduce red-legged frogs to the Santa Monica Mountains. Five hundred eggs were moved to the mountain wetlands and are expected to hatch any day. This will reintroduce red-legged frog tadpoles to historic waterways where they lived thrived for hundreds of thousands of years and are free of predatory fish, snails and crayfish.
Previous conservation efforts to re-establish frog populations have been successful in the Central Valley’s Pinnacles National Park and the Bay Area’s Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
Read more at: Biologists move 500 red-legged frog eggs to mountain wetlands – latimes.com.
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