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Efforts To Save Rare Frogs In Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area Hit Milestone

(National Park Service Photo)
California Red-legged Frog

There’s been a huge breakthrough in efforts to help rebuild the population of some rare frogs which disappeared from the Santa Monica Mountains in the 1970’s.

The National Park Service says a program to help rebuild the population of red legged frogs has hit a milestone.

Katy Delaney is a National Park Service biologist with the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation area. Her team has been using frogs in the Simi Hills to try to create a new population of the federally threatened species in the mountains.   She says nine egg masses found by researchers are the first evidence the effort is working, and that translocated eggs are resulting in frogs which are now naturally reproducing.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.