Developers Face Costs for Saving Frog in Calif. Oct 8, 2009
Federal wildlife officials estimate that measures needed to protect the California red-legged frog will cost developers up to $507 million over the next two decades. The estimate released Wednesday by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service comes a year after the agency designated 1. (ABC News -- Wire)
Take a mulligan at Sharp Park Sep 10, 2009
It is also killing two of the Bay Area's most wondrous and imperiled animals: the endangered San Francisco garter snake - arguably the most beautiful and imperiled serpent in North America - and the threatened California red-legged frog - the largest frog native to the West, made famous by Mark Twain's short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.". Most of these problems can be directly traced to golf architect Alister MacKenzie's original design. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
Fight continues over fate of Sharp Park course Sep 1, 2009
That lineage has golfers petitioning the city of Pacifica to declare the course a historic landmark - a designation aimed in part at environmental activists who want the site off Highway 1 converted into habitat for the San Francisco garter snake and the California red-legged frog ... Threatened: California red-legged frog, right. (San Francisco Chronicle)
SM City Council to consider final EIR on Union Valley Parkway Mar 14, 2009
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has concerns about habitats in that area for the California tiger salamander and California red-legged frog, both endangered species. An Orcutt group is poised to protest the EIR through legal action if it is approved Tuesday. (Santa Maria Times)
Water district seeks OK for 'safe harbor' Mar 10, 2009
EBMUD proposes to create, restore and manage land around the dams for three species the federal government says are threatened: the valley elderberry longhorn beetle, California red-legged frog and California tiger salamander. In return, the federal government would allow the incidental take of those species from dam-raising projects. (Sacramento Business Journal, CA)
