AR-News: (US CA) Frog Discovery May Jump-Start Shift in Attitude

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

Two men hope finding the threatened species will help change ranchers' 
historic hostility toward recovery programs.

By Robert Hollis, Special to The Times


MURPHYS, Calif. — The discovery of three threatened California red-legged 
frogs in a rancher's stock pond in western Calaveras County in the fall has 
triggered a new effort to convince the state's ranchers that the amphibians are 
important to their long-term economic survival.

When the rancher's children stumbled upon the frogs — a male and two females —
 while playing around a water hole in October, the family's decision to 
report the find to the Murphys-based Jumping Frog Research Institute was of 
historic importance. 






full story:

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-frogs20jan20,1,7638927.story?coll=la-h
eadlines-california



"The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.",
Albert Einstein

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Male meat-eaters have a 50% chance of dying of a heart attack. Vegetarian men 
have a 4% risk. US vegetarians have cholesterol levels 14% lower than 
meat-eaters; vegans (those who don't consume meat or dairy products) have levels 35% 
lower. JAMA, 1995;274:894











    
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