This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Populations of western toad (Bufo boreas) have declined or disappeared from much of the species' range in the United States. To assess ...

WHIDBEY ISLAND — Island County needs to do a better job of protecting the western toad, a state board has ruled. The Growth Management Hearings Board again found the county’s comprehensive plan out of ...

RENO (AP) – Northern Nevada, with its hot, dry summers and desert terrain, is hardly thought of as a paradise for toads. But that’s what it’s become, this year anyway, thanks to two wet winters and a ...

As I wandered around a beaver pond one day in mid-September, I noticed something small and dark moving slowly through the grass and weeds. It was a toadlet, just recently transformed from a tadpole.

Warmer weather over the South Pacific during the past three decades has caused an environmental chain reaction that is killing most of the eggs of a type of toad in Oregon, according to a study. It is ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The Western Toad (Anaxyrus boreas) is an IUCN red-listed species affected by habitat destruction and emerging infectious diseases. We tested ...

RENO, Nev. – Federal officials announced Thursday that a rare plant found in three Western states warrants protection under the Endangered Species Act, and a toad found only in Nevada will be studied ...

Trout raised in hatcheries can pass a deadly fungus to amphibians, researchers have found. The discovery bolsters suspicion that stocking lakes for sportfishing could be contributing to a global ...

Western toads have begun to pop their heads above streams adjacent to the Sunriver Nature Center & Observatory in preparation for their great migration. Each year, thousands of toadlets emerge from ...

RENO — Three new species of toads have been discovered living in Nevada’s Great Basin in an expansive survey of the 190,000 square mile ancient lake bottom. Discoveries of new amphibians are extremely ...

A Vancouver Island man's film about western toad tadpoles that's been four years in the making captures footage he says is the first of its kind. Comox Valley-based Maxwel Hohn worked with writer and ...

Last year, Cynthia Berger tried for an autumn spinach harvest in her Pennsville, Pa. garden. The pests got there first. “It was slug city,” says Berger. The slimy, shell-less mollusks turned the ...