Mountain Yellow-Legged Frogs - Yosemite Nature Notes - Episode 32

[@hylandnature]

Awesome story! Well told and filmed!

[@denisedennis8751]

We have a yellow legged frogs recovery system up here in Idyllwild. Several hundreds have been released in the past 2 years to re-populate the ecosystems. It's pretty wonderful. Thank you San Diego for helping!😊

[@Mrkozak710]

I believe I just saw one on my way to San Jacinto peak from humber park! Would that have been one? Looked very similar

[@savethefrogs]

Great footage and music too!

[@sbrownmd]

Great footage of a very special species. Nice job!

[@blackberrysticker4864]

I saw one of your videos doing my school and so I decided to try and find this channel! Found you! :) Edit:not that it matters :I

[@bigCAS650]

I would love to see a video on how these frogs survive winter in the high sierras. Do they freeze and thaw, do they bury themselves and hibernate?

[@zacharydunn5244]

They don't bury themselves but yes, they hibernate near the bottom of the pond or lake.

[@jeanettewaverly2590]

Survival of the froggiest!

[@empitts]

Wonderful ❤️

[@alaskaminnie644]

i love!!!

[@archiearchiball3392]

i love frogs are cute and fun to play with i hope they recover

[@sherryb9770]

Did the frogs develop a natural immunity to the fungus?

[@HighlanderNorth1]

It seems that maybe some of them did.

[@vidwitch1508]

UCSB continued this work to re-introduce frogs that are resistant to the fungus!:)) I think they’ve been pretty successful so far - some new articles came out about h this in the past week or so!:)

[@MovinOnBob]

I would rather have trout than frogs.

[@paulweissich2482]

@Movin' On Bob if you want trout go to where they occur naturally. These lakes are where these frogs occur naturally.

[@MovinOnBob]

@@paulweissich2482 and the fungus occurs naturally too. Haha

[@paulweissich2482]

@@MovinOnBob what does the fungus have to do with trout? Did it arrive with the planted fish?

[@MovinOnBob]

@@paulweissich2482 I'm just saying, if it's all about the "natural process" then watching the video it is clear that 40 years ago it was the FUNGUS that began to decimate the frogs in the 70s. The fungus is a natural occurrence. But now the park is packing frogs to lakes where the fungus doesn't live. Is that NATURAL? NO. Why is planting trout bad but ok for frogs? The frogs were doing fine for 60 years with the trout. The park is doing the EXACT same thing with the frog that they say should not have happened with the trout. They ate gill netting the lakes and killing the trout. The people should have had a say in that decision.

[@paulweissich2482]

@@MovinOnBob historically the lakes were native habitat for the frogs, not for trout. The video also makes it clear that introduction of the trout had a devastating effect on the native frog populations - that's why the decision to remove the trout was made. Clearly it's not all about "natural processes" - it seems that we (humans) have to tamper with any/everything. I'm not sure I support planting frogs in lakes where they never occurred naturally, but I definitely support removal of the trout. There are plenty of trout in other places, but not mountain yellow-legged frogs.