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Herpetologist Bennet Hardy holds a leaping red-legged froglet in a restoration pond that is part of a cross-border effort to bring back the native species in both Baja California, Mexico, and Southern California, Monday, Aug. 11, 2025, on a ranch outside of El Coyote, Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Photos of red-legged frog, which conservationists are working to restore to its California habitat

August 26, 2025

THE SANTA ROSA PLATEAU ECOLOGICAL RESERVE, Calif. By GREGORY BULLAssociated Press THE SANTA ROSA PLATEAU ECOLOGICAL RESERVE, Calif. (AP) —