by Susan | Jun 14, 2010 | Deforestation and frogs, Learn about Frogs, Meet the Frogs
Over Memorial Day, my family and I explored Frotenac Provincial Park in southeastern Ontario, Canada. We called this park Frog Heaven because it was full of swamps, marshes, and frogs ponds. I saw a few bullfrogs, but my son spotted what I’m pretty sure is a...
by Susan | Sep 18, 2009 | Frog Conservation, habitat loss, Meet the Frogs, People Helping Frogs and Toads
Maybe it’s because my choir rehearsals begin tonight, but I was intrigued by this story about the Houston Toad—the star soprano in the frog chorus. Here’s some information about the toad from The Dallas Morning News: In the nightly pondside chorus,...
by Susan | Aug 17, 2009 | Climate change and frogs, How You Can Help, Meet the Frogs, Rainforest Frogs
In the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve of Costa Rica, there were once so many harlequin frog species (Atelopus) that it was hard not to step on them when walking alongside streams. But during the 1980s and 1990s, most of these frogs vanished due to deadly infectious...
by Susan | Jul 17, 2009 | Frogs Are Green contests, Meet the Frogs
Sometimes it seems that the charismatic frogs get all the attention (like our mascot, the red-eyed tree frog). But the more ordinary frogs with muted colors have a beauty all their own. Recently, my husband John and younger son Tim took a trip to New Hampshire where...
by Susan | Jul 7, 2009 | Frog Conservation, Meet the Frogs
I was intrigued by this article in The Seattle Times yesterday about a program at the Cedar Creek Corrections Center (Washington state) where inmates are raising Oregon spotted frogs, an endangered species, in the prison. The inmates have stunned researchers because...
by Susan | Jun 21, 2009 | Learn about Frogs, Meet the Frogs
June is traditionally the month of the Puerto Rican Day parade in New York City, and in other cities around the country, so it’s a good time to celebrate the unofficial symbol of Puerto Rico—the common coqui, a frog species endemic to Puerto Rico. If you...
