The “Frog Lady,” as Trater’s known, has tracked the frog’s precarious existence here in the Heber Valley, 45 miles east of Salt Lake, for more than two decades as part of that effort.

• Abundant and best known amphibian in Yellowstone. • Maximum length is 3.2 inches, newly metamorphosed juveniles less than one inch long. • Upper surface of the adult is gray-brown to dark ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service designated the frog as a candidate for federal protection in 1993 but never put it on the endangered species list.

A Columbia spotted frog egg mass floats near the surface of a pond in the Upper Grande Ronde River area on the Wallowa-Whitman National forest on April 27, 2022. Female frogs deposit their eggs in ...

A spotted frog readies to go a courting after emerging for the season. Columbia spotted frogs hibernate in ponds, springs, beaver dams and under stream cut-banks where it doesn’t freeze and ...

Environment Oregon spotted frog hops to the front of the line under proposal for endangered species protection Updated: Aug. 28, 2013, 6:50 p.m. | Published: Aug. 28, 2013, 5:50 p.m. By ...

Every year during the Columbia spotted frogs’ mating season, which Lawrence said typically lasts from early March to mid-April, DWR wildlife specialists monitor population levels by tallying egg ...

Jake Mecham, a native aquatics biologist for Utah's Division of Wildlife Resources, surveys a pond in the Diamond Fork area for Columbia spotted frog egg masses on Tuesday, April 2, 2019.

The frog’s habitat once ranged from parts of British Columbia to parts of California in 48 different watersheds. It is now found in 31 watersheds in five Oregon and five Washington counties ...

The Oregon spotted frog once occurred throughout the Willamette Valley, Puget Trough and elsewhere. Today there are fewer than 100 known sites where the frog still survives. The species is threatened ...

POPULATION TREND: The population of the Oregon spotted frog has dramatically declined in the past 50 years. It is presumed extirpated in its former range in California, and is nearing extinction in ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Wednesday the availability of a draft recovery plan for the Oregon spotted frog and a 60-day public comment period.