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Feds Intervene for Endangered Wyoming Toad
Environmental News Network ^
| 6/22/2005
| Associated Press
Posted on 06/22/2005 8:32:28 AM PDT by GreenFreeper
CHEYENNE, Wyo. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to reintroduce several hundred more Wyoming toad tadpoles in Albany County.
The Wyoming toad is the only toad in the Laramie Basin and the basin is the toad's only home. The toad was listed as endangered in 1984 and thought to have gone extinct in 1987, although toads were later found at Mortenson Lake southwest of Laramie.
Thousands of toads have since been bred in captivity and released, with mixed results.
The latest release is planned on private land near Centennial and the Mortenson Lake National Wildlife Refuge. It's part of a "safe harbor" agreement between the Fish and Wildlife Service and the owner of the land, a nonprofit group called the Buford Foundation.
The foundation preserves land and buses in children from urban areas so they can experience nature in Wyoming, according to Chuck Davis, endangered species coordinator for the Fish and Wildlife Service regional office in Denver.
"One of the best things we can do is try to establish another population, because clearly they are not doing well at Mortenson Lake," Davis said.
It is the first safe harbor agreement in the Fish and Wildlife Service's eight-state Mountain-Prairie Region. "Hopefully it will catch on," agency spokeswoman Sharon Rose said.
Such agreements allow past uses of land to continue. In this case, cattle grazing will be allowed to continue.
Davis said the agreement may be critical for the species' survival.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amphibians; eco; ecology; endangeredspecies; environment; esa; fishandwildlife; herps; toads
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Nice example of stewardship from a private landowner!!!
To: NormsRevenge; forester; Carry_Okie; editor-surveyor; sweetliberty; Issaquahking; madfly; ...
Eco-ping
Pretty decieving title, huh?
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posted on
06/22/2005 8:33:29 AM PDT
by
GreenFreeper
(Enviro-cons hooo!)
To: GreenFreeper
Thanks for the ping. Good story!
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posted on
06/22/2005 8:39:09 AM PDT
by
Gardener
To: windcliff
To: GreenFreeper
A few pics of the handsome
Bufo baxteri
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posted on
06/22/2005 8:44:35 AM PDT
by
GreenFreeper
(Enviro-cons hooo!)
To: GreenFreeper
*Croak!* :D
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posted on
06/22/2005 8:57:19 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :^)
To: GreenFreeper
Looks just like the ones in my garden, and thats West TX
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posted on
06/22/2005 9:01:37 AM PDT
by
Graycliff
(Long haired freaky people, need not apply.)
To: Graycliff
Since we're all related...thanks to Darwin, is there even such a thing as extinction.
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posted on
06/22/2005 9:11:59 AM PDT
by
Sacajaweau
(God Bless Our Troops!!)
To: GreenFreeper
That's one good looking toad. I could use a few to keep down the mosquitoes.
To: Sacajaweau
And should we be preserving species that just can't hack natural selection?
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posted on
06/22/2005 12:00:09 PM PDT
by
TalonDJ
To: GreenFreeper
Maybe the feds should do a recount at the Green River Lakes. When I was there, I saw those little toads everywhere.
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posted on
07/21/2005 8:50:35 PM PDT
by
Excuse_My_Bellicosity
("A litany of complaints is not a plan." -- G.W. Bush, regarding Sen. Kerry's lack of vision)
To: NormsRevenge; forester; Carry_Okie; editor-surveyor; Issaquahking; madfly; freestyle; Outland; ...
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posted on
07/22/2005 7:28:29 AM PDT
by
GreenFreeper
(FM me to be added to the Eco-Ping List)
To: GreenFreeper
ooops...repeat. I appologize!
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posted on
07/22/2005 7:30:02 AM PDT
by
GreenFreeper
(FM me to be added to the Eco-Ping List)
To: Sacajaweau
Since we're all related...thanks to Darwin, is there even such a thing as extinction. And if it can't survive or adapt on its own against humanity, in a brutal darwinian world, should we really be propping it up?
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posted on
07/22/2005 7:36:27 AM PDT
by
Bear_Slayer
(DOC - 81mm Mortars, Wpns Co. 2/3 KMCAS 86-89)
To: Graycliff; 1Old Pro; aardvark1; a_federalist; abner; alaskanfan; alloysteel; alfons; ...
"Looks just like the ones in my garden, and thats West TX" And you can add California to the list too. A toad is a toad. If they applied the same logic they use for toads and salamanders to kittens, they would be calling every death an extinction.
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posted on
07/22/2005 9:41:01 AM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Atheist and Fool are synonyms; Evolution is where fools hide from the sunrise)
To: editor-surveyor
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posted on
07/22/2005 10:01:14 AM PDT
by
E.G.C.
To: editor-surveyor
... they would be calling every death an extinction.'No man is an island' placemarker.
;^)
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posted on
07/22/2005 10:14:11 AM PDT
by
headsonpikes
("The U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government.")
To: GreenFreeper
Whew! 'Bout damn'd time, too!
;o)
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posted on
07/22/2005 10:16:26 AM PDT
by
LIConFem
(A fronte praecipitium, a tergo lupi.)
To: editor-surveyor
A toad is a toad. If they applied the same logic they use for toads and salamanders to kittens, they would be calling every death an extinction. I tend to agree, classification and systematics really need to be reevaluated. What a species is and isn't has now become more of a political matter than a scientific one. Then again I like to see variety, so I appreciate the many types of toads and salamanders.
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posted on
07/22/2005 10:21:54 AM PDT
by
GreenFreeper
(FM me to be added to the Eco-Ping List)
To: editor-surveyor
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