How to Help Fight Invasive Species? Eat Them - Bullfrog, Anyone?
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Photo:  The Globe and Mail
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How to Help Fight Invasive Species?  Eat Them - Bullfrog, Anyone?
August 19, 2014  |  The Globe and Mail  | Wency Leung

The ponds near Melanie Gisler's Corvallis, Ore., home were lousy with bullfrogs. Whenever the restoration ecologist went hiking, the banks would come alive as they hopped to safety. Their exodus to the waters resembled a swarm of lemmings. The cacophony of chirps and croaks was deafening. So Gisler found a pragmatic approach to tackle the invasive species: She ate them.  READ MORE...


 
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