U.S. Geological Survey biologist Elizabeth Gallegos leads her team on a hike to release Southern California mountain yellow-legged frogs into a pair of remote creeks in the San Gabriel Mountains.

OAKLAND (BCN) -- Thirty-three Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frogs leapt into the wild Wednesday and Oakland Zoo officials hope they will help restabilize their species. The Sierra Nevada yellow-legged ...

As its name suggests, this small frog is native to the Sierra Nevada. Unfortunately, this species has seen population ...

Foothill yellow-legged frogs are striking stream-dwelling amphibians with a distinctive lemon-yellow color under their legs. They live in Pacific drainages from the upper reaches of the Willamette ...

SAN BERNARDINO (CBSLA) — A group of mountain yellow-legged frogs have been reintroduced to the San Bernardino National Forest, nearly 20 years after its population was nearly wiped out in Southern ...

Mountain yellow-legged frogs, long under threat from trout, people and disease, are getting new protections from state Fish and Game officials. The frogs live at elevation — in streams, rivers, creeks ...

Up to only a few inches in length, with a lemon-hued belly, the foothill yellow-legged frog may seem unassuming. But its range once stretched from central Oregon to Baja California. In 2023, it was ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Some like it hot. Apparently, the endangered mountain yellow-legged frog ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Shortly after World War II, California fish managers had a brainstorm: They loaded juvenile trout into airplanes and saturation-bombed naturally fishless ...

Six biologists shouldered backpack coolers filled with 200 federally endangered frogs on Thursday morning and started trudging uphill across three miles of roadless wilderness on the northwestern ...