Frogs get designated habitat

The Fish and Wildlife Service has stuck to its guns and is designating 1.8 million acres of mostly public California land as habitat critical for the preservation of the Yosemite toad and two frog species peculiar to the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Years in the making, the politically sensitive decision, to be made final Friday, potentially affects future land management decisions in 16 counties from Lassen in the north to Fresno in the south. Grazing, logging and hydroelectric dam operations in the region must take the amphibians into account.

Here is the decision that was made on Friday as shown in the Federal Register – August 26 2016