Last spring, wildlife officials had temporarily listed the speckled, black-eyed toad on a rarely used emergency basis. The amphibian is at risk of extinction mainly due to the approval and commencement of geothermal development, but other threats include groundwater pumping, agriculture, climate change, chytrid fungus, disease and predation from invasive bullfrogs.
"Due to the imminent development of a geothermal project in Dixie Meadows, Nevada, and the potential resulting effects to the geothermal springs relied upon by the Dixie Valley toad, there is a significant risk to the well-being of the species," the agency said then."We find that emergency listing is necessary in order to provide the protective measures afforded by the Act to the Dixie Valley toad.
The Fish and Wildlife Service cited some of their concerns – including that pumping hot water from beneath the surface to generate carbon-free power would adversely impact levels and temperatures of surface water critical to the toad’s survival and sacred to the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe. In Dec.
Proof they do care about clean energy They care about CONTROL and POWER
I've got thousands of toads in my backyard he can have. I wonder if I should drop them off at the White House...🤔
Nukem dammit
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Cresent Dunes Solar farm and bird migration. Birds lost, so will the frogs, tho it is ultimatly dependent upon how much money has been invested between the technologies.