Frank Santana, a research technician with the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research, prepares to make the first-ever release of endangered mountain yellow-legged frog tadpoles into a mountain stream. They are among 36 of the Southern California population of mountain yellow-legged frogs reintroduced into a stream near Idyllwild, Calif., Tuesday. There are believed to be less than 200 of the frogs living in the San Gabriel, San Bernardino and San Jacinto mountains. Photo: CourtesyThe restoration of the Hill’s mountain yellow-legged frog population is continuing although no new releases of eggs are planned for 2012, according to Adam R. Backlin, ecologist at the U.S. Geological Survey’s Western Ecological Research Center in Irvine.
“It looks like our captive breeding program this year did not produce as many new frogs as we had hoped. So we will not be releasing any frogs in 2012,” Backlin wrote in an email last week. “Instead we will be head starting the 200 to 300 new frogs to an older life stage in captivity and releasing them in 2013 as juvenile frogs.”
The team continues to monitor frog releases from 2011 and did detect tadpoles in the creek as recently as February 2012, he added.
They are hoping some of tadpoles released in 2011 will have survived this winter and metamorphose into frogs this summer.
A significant step toward realizing the Idyllwild Community Center and the Butterfield Family Center was taken Monday, Feb. 11. The Mount San Jacinto Community Center board has been reformulated, as David Butterfield said last month. The current members of the Idyllwild Community Recreation Council, the operational entity, under the legal umbrella of the MSJCC, appointed…
A resident of a Pine Cove mansion for years, Analia Lenchantin has considerable experience trying to ignite a fire in large — 4-foot fireplaces. Now she has the “Cito,” meaning “heart,” to help you get those stubborn fires burning — a long metal tube to blow into and direct the air to the ebbing fire, which will aid in ignition.
Fire log Hill fire stations responded to the following calls, Monday to Monday, Oct. 15 to Oct. 22, 2012: Idyllwild Fire Department and Ambulance Log unavailable. Riverside County Fire, Pine Cove Oct. 15 — Medical aid, Pine Cove Road, Pine Cove. Oct. 15 — False alarm, Temecula Drive, Idyllwild. Oct. 20 — Medical aid, Rockmere…
On Tuesday, Feb. 11, the Riverside County Board of Supervisors decided to renegotiate the county’s current ambulance contract with American Medical Response rather than considering competitive bids for the whole or parts of the county. The current AMR contract expires June 30, 2015. One of the principal reasons was the experience of Alameda, Monterey and…
A few weeks ago, the Town Crier received a letter from a resident concerned about the currently active pruning of trees. The author wrote, “I just stopped Asplund … from further cutting my pine tree. It is the worst time of year for cutting pines and introducing pathways for bark beetles. The tree they were…
Two vehicle crashes occurred on Hill roads last week, according to official California Highway Patrol reports. A third occurred but no official report was completed. At 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 27, Jose Meza, 41, of San Diego, was driving a white 2017 Chevy truck westbound on Highway 74, 5 miles west of McCall Park Road,…
