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Bastrop
Rancher Bob Long is doing
big things to protect a very little frog. The Huston toad
is just a little bigger then a quarter and is rapidly
disappearing. On his 550 acre ranch in south-central Texas
Bob is fencing off ponds to protect them from cattle and
erosion, using rotational grazing to prevent the toads
from being trampled during their six month breeding
season, and keeping shade trees while cutting back the
invasive red cedar and planting native bunchgrasses. With
the help of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists Bob
also burns excessive low growing scrub so the
Houston
toad can move through corridors that link ponds and
woodlands. Soon Bob and the biologists are going to
install a pipeline to divert water from a near by creek to
the ponds in times of drought. All of this is thanks to a
Safe
Harbor
agreement between Bob and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service. Source: Working Together: Tools for Helping
Imperiled Wildlife on Private Lands, August 2005
U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service.
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