Hey Texans! The Houston Toad is nearly extinct.

Please raise some hell.

http://www.cnah.org/news.asp?id=205

Tom DeLay. :P

(You know SOMEONE was gonna say it.)

Would you like to give us some more pointers about a specific campaign you'd like to participate in, etc?

I posted this in E&E also. :>{

What to do? Contact your local Audubon chapter, they may have something going on. Since this is going on I fear that Texas Fish & Game is compromised or irrelevant. Start a campaign to boycott the developers. Take up thy spanner....(ooops, I didn't say that)

friends and I caught sight of TWO baby toads at different points along the trail. they were teeny-tiny, the first one about the size of a pencil eraser and the second not much larger. cute little boogers. we didn't do much to "protect" them other than cheer them on and wish them well, and stay on the trails of course. we had read signs at the trailhead about their endangered status. but you can see at that age they'd be no match for a hungry bird. :(

now in that same hike we spotted something like 40 Boy Scouts, two different troops, with their assorted adults. sounds from your article like maybe the boy scouts are setting up habitats to help the toads?

also, is the toad in my Houston garden a Houston Toad or something more common? i think the Bastrop babies were Houston Toads, because that's their habitat and they had light-colored spots like in the pictures. (can you tell I'm not a biologist?) but I don't know about my garden friend.

Cutie!

WARK!

the ones we saw looked more like your "southern toad", below.

borrow or buy the Peterson Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of the Eastern and central US, it's the best.

Do what you can, extinction is forever.

When I saw the title of this thread, I immediatedly though of my favorite Ronnie Earl quote. Being called partisan by Tom Delay is the same as being called ugly by a frog (or a toad).

Toads and frogs are valuable sentient life forms, Delay is not.

Sonia