Wildlife biologists recently discovered rare toads are naturally repopulating in a high mountain lake where captively raised tadpoles were transplanted for several years. Staff from the Colorado Parks ...
Behind a gate at the edge of the Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance in City Park is the Boreal Toad Conservation Center, a building colloquially known by zoo staff as the “Toad Barn.” Inside, awkward ...
Colorado wildlife officials are celebrating some long-awaited good news – the mountain toads are making tadpoles. For seven years, biologists have been toting tadpoles to high-elevation bogs and ponds ...
Colorado wildlife officials are celebrating some long-awaited good news — the mountain toads are making tadpoles! For seven years, biologists have been toting tadpoles to high-elevation bogs and ponds ...
While basically all frogs are semi-aquatic to some degree, some species spend nearly all of their lives underwater! Though they are quite rare, there are several notable varieties of nearly fully ...
When the topic of wildlife conservation and management is discussed, it is often the large and charismatic animals that attract the most attention. But many of our smaller mountain residents have ...
BUENA VISTA, Colo. — Colorado Parks and Wildlife announced on Tuesday that a team reintroduced boreal toad tadpoles in the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness in Chaffee County. The team was led by Alex ...
Roughly 20 years of reintroduction efforts appear to be paying off for Colorado biologists working to save the state’s boreal toad population. Habitat loss and a deadly amphibian fungus have decimated ...