Elizabeth Gallegos and other biologists taking part in a search and rescue mission for endangered mountain yellow-legged frogs in a pond on a fire-ravaged stretch of Little Rock Creek. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)“We have the support of all the responsible wildlife agencies,” said Adam Backlin, who led the Little Rock Creek rescue. The 30 adult frogs were to be carried on foot, in backpack coolers, across eight miles of roadless wilderness to a remote tributary of the East Fork of the San Gabriel River. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)The Center for Biological Diversity on Wednesday filed notice of its intent to sue the U.S. Decades ago, when hundreds of miles of streams throughout the San Gabriel, San Bernardino and San Jacinto mountains were packed with pond turtles, fist-sized yellow-legged and red-legged frogs and Santa Ana suckers, they survived over time by recolonizing from neighboring populations.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 01, 2020 14:03 UTC