Nearly 600 California red-legged frog tadpoles were released into Santa Monica Mountains streams recently, marking an emergency conservation success for a species that vanished from the area more than 50 years ago. The tadpoles were rescued as eggs in March after extreme late-winter storms threatened to destroy fragile breeding sites throughout the mountains. National Park […]
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