Posted on 11/24/2010 1:28:39 PM PST by NormsRevenge
The California red-legged frog, threatened for decades by spreading subdivisions, pesticides and logging, has found a sanctuary in the Sierra Nevada.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife has approved an agreement between two conservation organizations permanently protecting a 48-acre site known as the Big Gun Preserve near Foresthill in Placer County. The wildlife service listed the frogs as threatened in 1966 under the Endangered Species Act.
The land is owned by a unique nonprofit company called Westervelt Ecological Services, the conservation arm of a century-old Alabama lumber company, which buys up properties to preserve wildlife habitats and endangered natural environments.
The Westervelt organization teamed with the Placer Land Trust, a nonprofit in Auburn, to create the special conservation easement in an area that is habitat for the largest population of red-legged frogs in California, said Jessica Pierce, the trust's assistant director.
The site lies next to the Tahoe National Forest and includes several ponds, ponderosa pines, woodlands and chaparral. It was badly degraded during the Gold Rush, Pierce said. Under the agreement, the Placer organization will now protect it with fencing and improve its frog habitat.
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otherwise know as a feeding ground for ;The main predators of California red-legged frogs are birds, raccoons, snakes and the invasive exotic American bullfrog.
The number one predator of frogs is raccoons. The number one “wild pet” of liberals is.......raccoons. People feed and nurture these animals to the point of feeding them for generations of the animal. Ever since raccoons have been allowed to overpopulate the numbers of frogs are diminishing.....NOT a coincidence.
Northern California tree frogs are threatening massive strikes over concerns protection of cannabalistic red-legged frogs will further impact their own population numbers, and are now demanding a separate preserve...developing
"Well I don't know, but I been told ..." lol.
Mankind is the real endangered species in Calif. These set asides are the forerunners of Carbon Credits where some agency says set aside a few acres over here and you can log over there...
The article by a leading scientist in the San Francisco Comicle during the height of the flap over the harvesting of old growth timber in the 1990's was never given even a cricket's chirp!!!
That Mother Nature can be a real bich, some times!!!
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