Yellow Legged Frog "Oops"
Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 8:23 pm
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.
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.