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DEEP SPRINGS VALLEY, Calif. — When you’re as rare and vulnerable as a black toad, you can’t afford to be coy about romance. Surrounded by an unforgiving desert and forever isolated on a small patch of ...

Crowding the banks of native streams this time of year are tiny toads in waiting: fish-shaped tadpoles growing legs and gradually morphing into California toads. When the job is complete, they will ...

According to a study by U.S. Fish and Wildlife, the cost to protect the endangered arroyo toad in Southern California could amount to $789 million over 25 years. The study looked at a proposal to ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has finalized designation of 98,366 acres of critical habitat needed by the endangered arroyo toad to fulfill all of its complex life-cycle stages: flowing water, ...

LOS ANGELES— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to reduce protections for the arroyo toad under the Endangered Species Act. The proposed rule downlists the toad from endangered to ...

An environmental group and a Christian prayer network have joined forces to sue the Bush administration over the fate of an endangered toad -- the same “hapless” amphibian at the center of a legal ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service has stuck to its guns and is designating 1.8 million acres of mostly public California land as habitat critical for the preservation of the Yosemite toad (shown) and two ...