Maria Slough Trapping

Using collapsible minnow traps, we monitor the wetlands to see what we can catch. The traps in the Maria Slough in week 17-20 March 2008, caught 2 male Oregon Spotted frogs (seen above). This was a huge excitement. The object of the trapping is to see if we can catch any Oregon Spotted frogs that we've marked and released from the husbandry facilities. These two that were caught this week, did not have any elastomer dye in their webbing. It is still nice to see that there are other adults out there that we haven't raised! These frogs were released shortly after catching and taking pictures!