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California Red-legged Frog (Rana Aurora Draytonii) are long-time Peninsula residents

Posted on May 23, 2013 by DavidEnv

Mark Twain first found fame for writing an account of a jumping frog contest in Calaveras County. While the story may be apocryphal, the “Celebrated Frogs” of Mark Twain’s article, the California red-legged frogs, as the largeset native frogs in … Continue reading →

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