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REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS California Red Legged Frog |
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There has been a huge decline in the amounts of red-legged frogs in California . They have found that the frog species have disappeared from 70% of its historic land. Since 2002, they have set up a program called, Wetlands Regional monitoring program plan. This plan was established to take count of the number of red-legged frogs in California. The red-legged frogs are in danger because of human activities. The loss of habitation is the result of agriculture, urbanization, mining, overgrazing, recreation, degraded water quality, and introduced predators. California red-legged frogs were common in coastal habitats from the district of Point Reyes National Seashore, Marin County , California , and inland from the vicinity of Redding , Shasta County , California , southward to northwestern Baja California , Mexico . Today red-legged frogs are only known from northern coast and northern ranges; they have found that red-legged frogs no longer live in southern areas of California . This species is still common in the Bay area, and is most dominant in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara area. California Red-legged frogs are usually found but not restricted to ephemeral ponds, intermittent streams, seasonal wetlands, springs, seeps, permanent ponds, perennial creeks, manmade aquatic features, marshes, dune ponds, lagoons, riparian corridors, grasslands, and oak savannas. Red-legged frogs inhabit areas of diverse vegetation, and are found in natural and manmade aquatic habitats. |
