Hunting Headlines
| April 12, 2008 |
| Researchers studying chorus frogs |
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Van Bitner thought the squeaky-wheel call of the Illinois chorus frog was just another sign of spring. “All of us grew up around here listening to them, and we thought it was no big deal,” says Bitner, who farms near Mason City. “A neighbor described it perfectly: ‘I thought everybody got to hear those frogs in the spring.’” Bitner didn’t know the frogs were rare and listed as a threatened species in Illinois until Eric Golden knocked on his door. Golden was part of a team of conservationists, biologists, soil scientists and others interested in endangered species who fanned out across Menard, Mason, Tazewell and Cass counties this spring in searc...
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