Re: Time to Save the Yellow-legged Frog

http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2010/mountain-yellow-legged-frog-01-25-2010.html

California Endangered Species Act Protection Sought to Save Mountain Yellow-legged Frog
From Exotic Trout, Habitat Destruction, and Disease
SAN FRANCISCO— The Center for Biological Diversity today petitioned the California Fish and Game Commission to list all populations of the highly imperiled mountain yellow-legged frog as endangered under the California Endangered Species Act. Mountain yellow-legged frogs inhabit high-elevation lakes, ponds, and streams in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and Transverse Ranges of California and are on a rapid trend to extinction. Their rapid decline is due to predation by introduced trout, spread of diseases that may be exacerbated by exposure to pesticides, and habitat alterations caused by climate change, drought, and livestock grazing.
“Once the most abundant frog in the high Sierra, the mountain yellow-legged frog now barely clings to survival,” said Jeff Miller, a conservation advocate with the Center for Biological Diversity. “The mountain yellow-legged frog needs the protections of the California Endangered Species Act to have any chance at recovery.”

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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
-- Carl Sagan

Another sighting:

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Old Dude

I hear they taste just like chicken.

They taste better than chicken. However, the one in the photo would probably need to be soaked in heavily salted water for two years. It would still probably taste like Chinese factory floor sweepings.

I'll tell you in about 40 minutes.














Disclaimer: Picture posted before in another thread.
My lawyer taught me how to write this small.

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Old Dude



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/26/2010 07:07AM by mrcondron.

I knew it was going to be a bad choice of topic.

memo to self: Listen to your inner little man.

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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
-- Carl Sagan

You didn't here either:

"That black mass with shark teeth edge looks fierce:"

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Old Dude

Eye aint engangered. Just recovering at home.



Herez my buddie larrie in the hills near my home (Burra Burra Peak):

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chick-on
Eye aint engangered. Just recovering at home.



Herez my buddie larrie in the hills near my home (Burra Burra Peak):

No meat on dem feet.