Carolina gopher frog release

A gloved hand gently holding a gopher frog is resting on leaf littered forest floor near an old wood stump

Photo By/Credit

Gena Lyons/USFWS

Date Shot/Created

03/30/2022

Media Usage Rights/License

Public Domain

Image

Releasing a young hatchery raised Carolina gopher frog into the wild.

Facility

Bears Bluff National Fish Hatchery

Ecosystem

Forest

Species

Lithobates capito

Subject tags

Amphibians

Rare species

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