Introduction
Animals are facing homelessness at increasing rates. Their habitat squeezed, degraded, cut up by highways, the fern they live under beheaded by a weed whacker. This website is about some of these animals, in particular the Northern red-legged frog, and a crazy group of neighborhood folks who happened on this frog’s plight and decided to help.
In Science you’ll find information on these frogs, including their description and behavior. In Data, there’s original data we've collected on the Harborton frog population’s migration, to and from the wetland in our first eight years of the frog taxi. In History is the story of how our group of cab drivers came to be. Blog chronicles the roller coaster of the four to five month mating season (the frog’s, not ours); a page on how you can Help/Donate, and give us your Feedback. All text and photos by Rob Lee, unless otherwise noted. Here are links to newspaper articles about our effort: click on NW Examiner (March, 2014); click on Oregonian (March 31, 2014); click on Christian Science Monitor (January, 2016, by our own Murr Brewster, a long time frog volunteer).
Partners:
Linnton Neighborhood Association
West Multnomah Soil And Water Conservation District
Linnton Feed and Seed
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
La Cannaisseur
A curb-top view a red-legged frog confronts, having come down from their quiet forest home to breed in the riverside wetland, only to find their way blocked by the bedlam of flying steel and the roar of angry rubber.