Nestled high in the mountains of California, the wilderness lakes of Kings Canyon National Park are home to the mountain yellow-legged frog, at one time so plentiful that early settlers had to watch where they walked. Today, the frogs are threatened with extinction--not from settlers' feet or pollution or habitat destruction, but…trout. For years, the Department of Fish and Game has been stocking these remote lakes with non-native varieties of trout, which the frogs--whose natural predators are snakes--are ill-equipped to combat, with the result that tadpole consumption has reduced the mountain yellow-legged frog population to dangerously low numbers. Christian Cebrian's beautifully shot Last Legs shows viewers the frog's habitat and behaviors (an oddly breathy narrator relates how the mating cycle works), and presents interviews with naturalists, who discuss the problem of the amphibian's dwindling numbers, raising questions regarding wilderness and land management. Recommended for larger environmental collections. Aud: C, P. (E. Gieschen)
Last Legs: A California Frog's Decline
(2002) 18 min. $85. The Video Project. PPR. Color cover. Volume 17, Issue 5
Last Legs: A California Frog's Decline
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