California Red Legged Frog

California Red Legged Frog The California red-legged frog is the largest native frog in the western United States. The Records of the California red-legged frog are known from Riverside County to Mendocino County along the Coast Range of California. It has been on the endangered species list with a list of other endangered frogs. California red-legged frogs live in a Mediterranean climate, which brings about temporal and spatial changes in habitat quality which is why there species count was endangered. Recently since so many native people were fighting for more land for the frog because it’s a important native specie for Californians. They did receive more land because of George Bush’s environmental plan. That way the population of the red legged frog can prosper and come off the endangered list. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today opened a 60-day comment period on a new plan to designate 1.8 million acres as critical habitat for the threatened California red-legged frog, an area that is 300 per cent larger than a 2006 designation for the species, meaning that the frog will be able to repopulate. Another reason the frogs population began to rise again was because they finally figured out staying in large groups helped their survival. Like many other endangered species there is always one rule of survival that always seems to be applied in every environment and that is either adapt or die off and it seems the California red legged frog realized that if they want to stay alive that they need to be in packs and also the land contribution helped the survival of the frogs to where they don’t die off and increase their population, even though some frogs became extinct from not knowing to adapt to the situation.

Work Cited: http://www.fws.gov/arcata/es/amphibians/crlf/documents/20100317_75FR12816_California%20Red-legged%20Frog%20Critical%20Habitat%20Revised%20Designated.pdf http://www.fws.gov/arcata/es/amphibians/crlf/crlf.html

The southern colonies