Ted Williams on the talk over defending mountain yellow-legged frogs.
Shortly after World Conflict II, California fish managers had a brainstorm: They loaded juvenile trout into airplanes and saturation-bombed naturally fishless lakes within the Excessive Sierra Mountains of California. A number of the fish hit rocks and ice, however most hit water.
Gorging on zooplankton, bugs, and two sorts of mountain yellow-legged frogs, the alien invaders unraveled aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, typically in designated wilderness.
However as early as 2008, quite a few anglers, media, and native politicians have been throwing hissy matches about an effort to guard mountain yellow-legged frogs merely by suspending trout stocking in 175 waters inside nationwide forests.
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