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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The humble beaver, besides claiming a spot of honour on the Canadian nickel, is also helping fellow species survive. Though considered a pest because of the culvert-clogging dams it builds on streams, ...

Near EATONVILLE, Wash. - When Northwest Trek purchased a small pond near its Eatonville wildlife park, they had no idea they would inherit an amazing, natural spectacle. Toads, tens of thousands of ...

A chance encounter with tadpoles in the Santa Monica Mountains has led to a scientific find. The tadpoles were spotted in November 2015 in Los Robles Open Space in Thousand Oaks. Showing up then ...

Large multi-year study shows that juvenile "taster toads" taught goannas to avoid eating poisonous cane toads, preventing population collapse A landmark study published in the journal Conservation ...