Chiricahua leopard frogs get new homes in Arizona’s White Mountains
… At an outpost on state-owned land in the eastern mountain range, a rotating cast of volunteers lent their hands and help in service of the mission, a collaboration between the Arizona Game and Fish Department and the Amphibian and Reptile Conservancy, to create wetlands for a creature that many people have never seen: Chiricahua leopard frogs. … The frogs will also share their new wetlands with other fauna, like bighorn sheep, deer and birds, all of which need access to water resources in an increasingly arid Southwest where drought, groundwater depletion and wildfire are transforming the landscape. The project depends on the promise of summer storms.
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