Yellow Legged Frog "Oops"

Poppies & cougars & shrooms, oh my!
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cougarmagic
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Post by cougarmagic »

Don't plan on climbing Williamson Rock anytime soon.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me ... 7333.story

But seriously - these are now one of the most endangered amphibian species still clinging to existence right now.
For thousands of years, mountain yellow-legged frogs thrived in hundreds of streams cascading down the San Bernardino, San Gabriel and San Jacinto mountains.

Since the 1960s, the species has been decimated by fires, mudslides, pesticides, fungal infections, loss of habitat and the appetites of nonnative trout, bullfrogs and crayfish.

Today, fewer than 200 are believed to exist in nine isolated wild populations, including a group in the San Gabriel Mountains' Devils Canyon that survived the devastating Station fire.
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HikeUp
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Humans are too incompetent to do the right thing. Ooh let's do this...oops unintended consequences...oops we didn't do the right thing...oops let's do this...let's ban this...let's mandate this...in the end the frogs are dead. WTF.
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Taco
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They got whacked by the Frog Mafia.
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