It's the signature Colorado animal you know nothing about: the endangered boreal toad. It's normal to see people lugging massive backpacks up a Colorado trail toward beautiful scenic views. It's not ...
Wildlife biologists recently discovered rare toads are naturally repopulating in a high mountain lake where captively raised tadpoles were transplanted for several years. Staff from the Colorado Parks ...
Colorado wildlife officials are celebrating some long-awaited good news – the mountain toads are making tadpoles. For seven years, biologists have been toting tadpoles to high-elevation bogs and ponds ...
Roughly 20 years of reintroduction efforts appear to be paying off for Colorado biologists working to save the state’s boreal toad population. Habitat loss and a deadly amphibian fungus have decimated ...
Behind a gate at the edge of the Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance in City Park is the Boreal Toad Conservation Center, a building colloquially known by zoo staff as the “Toad Barn.” Inside, awkward ...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- Colorado Parks and Wildlife is working to restore the boreal toad population. According to CPW, the amphibian has been listed as an endangered species since 1993.
Colorado wildlife officials are celebrating some long-awaited good news — the mountain toads are making tadpoles! For seven years, biologists have been toting tadpoles to high-elevation bogs and ponds ...
BUENA VISTA, Colo. — Colorado Parks and Wildlife announced on Tuesday that a team reintroduced boreal toad tadpoles in the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness in Chaffee County. The team was led by Alex ...
The Denver Zoo has partnered with Colorado Parks and Wildlife to replenish an ailing population of boreal toads in the state by breeding adult toads then releasing their tadpoles into the wild. Over ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER (KDVR) – In mid-July, a group of ...
In Colorado’s subalpine areas, you might spot a greenish-gray toad hanging out in shallow waters, sporting a white stripe on its back. Each Boreal toad is further distinguished by its own belly ...
In an unusual turn for an unassuming species, a desert amphibian is at the center of both a potential ecological crisis and an evolving question of drug policy. The creature in question is the ...