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Editor's Note: This news item was retrieved and first published through Natinoal Parks Traveler's website.
The Dorrance Family Foundation has donated a $250,000 to the Sequoia Parks Conservancy, the official nonprofit partner to Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks. The Grant was given to help with the recovery of endangered mountain yellow-legged frogs in the two parks. Due to Mountain yellow-legged frogs populations being affected by non-native trout and infected with disease, they have been part of a flagship research and restoration program.NPT Staff of the National Parks Traveler, cover in their article, "Money from the grant will be used to increase frog resiliency to invasive species and climate change, restore critical habitat, reestablish lost populations of mountain yellow-legged frogs, augment vulnerable populations, and support the partnership with captive rearing programs at the Oakland Zoo and San Francisco Zoo." The Sequoia and Kings Canyon aquatic restoration team has made it their goal for some time to help save the frogs from going locally extinct. To read more on the Grant, click here.
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