Disturbing story today about the connection between fertilizer runoff and frog deformities in the U.S. West. Pieter Johnson, evolutionary biologist with the University of Colorado in Boulder, discovered this.
September 26, 2007
Let’s give frogs a hand, not four legs
Posted by pleasecroak under Amphibian, Environment, Experts, Frog, News, Wildlife | Tags: amphibians, fertilizer, frog deformities, pollution, Wildlife |[2] Comments
Frog Matters 
April 9, 2010 at 9:48 am
I currently live in Boulder Co. I was looking for algae eaters native to the region on the internet and walked over to the nearby water ponds. I could not find one single leopard frog or algae eater in there. I realized that they could have died off from the parasite which would impose a problem where there is nearby farming but this area doesn’t have any nearby farms and still no algae eaters just ducks visiting. Shouldn’t they fill the water with algae eaters to keep the water clean any way? If there is too much phosphorus or nitrate in the water then it should be cleaned out carefully.
September 23, 2010 at 11:01 pm
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