Student Run Amphibian Conservation Education Project

Fifth Graders at Dodge intermediate School in Twinsburg are participating in an amphibian conservation education project. They will be making an "Amphibians of Ohio" poster with the help of Treefrog Educational. These posters will be located around Twinsburg to highlight the need to protect amphibian habitat and to reduce pollutants. The fifth-graders are raising funds to pay for the professionally produced posters by selling t-shirts. The slogan and images are student-created. The sale continues until May 16th. Buy a t-shirt and help educate Northeast Ohio about amphibians.

Students in the picture: Hunter Spittler (left), creator of slogan and Lexie Dungan (right), artist

North Coast Nature Festival

We had beautiful weather over the weekend for the North Coast Nature Festival held at Rocky River Reservation in North Olmsted, Ohio. This three day festival for nature lovers featured guest speakers, hikes, live animal programs, children’s activities and appearances by Vern the wood frog.

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Vern the Wood Frog Meets Flat Stanley

Vern and the Leap into Action crew met Flat Stanley this past weekend at North Coast Nature Festival in Rocky River.

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Medina County Earth Day Celebration

The 12th Annual Medina County Earth Day celebration was held at Buffalo Creek Retreat on April 19, 2008. Over 1400 people came out to learn more about ways they can help protect and conserve the resources on our precious planet.

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Salamanders in North Chagrin

It's so nice every year to see hundreds of swirling Spotted Salamanders swimming around in their breeding ponds at North Chagrin reservation.

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Twinsburg Yellow Spotted Salamander Migration

We joined several other families to see the annual Yellow Spotted Salamander migration with the Twinsburg Parks & Recreation Department on the night of March 31, 2008.

(Submission by Marissa & Corinne of Aurora, Ohio)

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Love is in the Air

With the omen of a cool spring shower approaching, this past week the amphibians of the North Chagrin area began their search for that perfect someone.

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Chytrid Resistance Study

This past weekend, Drs. Brandon Sheafor and Jonathan Scott traveled with volunteer Katherine Krynak to Buffalo Zoo to collect AMP's from their golden frogs. This non-invasive collection is part of an on-going study looking at the basic idea of selectively breeding amphibians for resistance to the deadly chytrid fungus, so that animals (like the Golden Frog) can one day be returned to their native homes.

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Carrikeri Harlequin Frog Re-discovered

A group of young scientists recently discovered that a species of frog which had not been seen for 14 years is still surviving in a remote region of Colombia. The Project Atelopus team, whose work is supported by the Conservation Leadership Programme, were surveying in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains in northern Colombia when they found the frog. The species is only found in this small mountainous region, where it lives in high altitude grassland habitat, and can even survive in snow-covered areas.

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Frozen Frogs

Did you know that the common wood frog freezes solid every winter, and when spring comes, defrosts and mates?

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