Tracking the Vanishing Frogs
Tracking the Vanishing Frogs: An Ecological Mystery by Kathryn Phillips is the compilation of Kathryn Phillip's journeys and stories told to her by those who she observed. The book chronicles the fieldwork, lab work, and amphibian research of several dozen scientists. However, I feel that the book mainly focuses on five scientists. Those five scientists are Mark Jennings, a native Californian, who's main work focuses on the California red-legged frog and other native amphibian species of California. His partner, and long time fieldwork partner is Marc Hayes. Long time associates, Mark and Marc now both worked together in an attempt to get the California red-legged frog listed as an endangered species. The other pair of herpetologists have worked mainly on finding reasons behind the disappearance of the Golden toad of Costa Rica as well as the Harlequin Frog. These two scientists are Alan Pounds and Martha Crump. The fifth scientist, and the only one that manages to accomplish his goals alone is Sam Sweet. Sam's main goal in life is to protect the two streams in California that are still home Arroyo toad. The two streams are in a National Reserve and they are completely unaffected by non-indigenous species. They are the
According to figures collected from government agencies by Traffic U. The main purpose of this book is clear just from reading the title of the book. The purpose is to inform and forewarn people of the "vanishing frogs. So in the future, maybe we should pay more attention to the animals that are less intelligent, and less able to defend themselves, for fear that in the future, we ourselves could cause our own demise. She spent three years of her life following, questions, and recording experiences, triumphs, and tragedies with a dozens or herpetologists and ecologists. In general, the book could appeal to anyone with a nature friendly Zeitgeist. 5 million pounds of frozen frog meat each year between 1981 and 1984. The French used up all their supply of frogs with large meaty legs that they have had to import frog legs from other countries for several centuries now. As stated earlier, the main argument is for the protection of amphibian species because of their mass depletion in numbers. The book includes many descriptions of field work, two chapters are entitled simply "In the Field I" and "In the Field II. "Historical records show that this species (spotted frogs) once lived in at least twenty-three locations in western Oregon, on the Klamath and Willamette. The book is somewhat of a slow reader, I finished it's minimal two-hundred and nineteen pages in a period of six days. Kathryn Phillip's argument is extremely strong, she researched the information thoroughly before even beginning to start work on her book. Hayes has checked twenty-one of the twenty-three locations, and so far only one bog still contains residents of the spotted frog species" (217,218).
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