Tropical Storm Hillary: Wildlife avoid the worst rain, wind, flash floods. They are more threatened by manmade dangers.
When Tropical Storm Hilary drenched the town of Big Bear and nearby communities, some mountain dwellers were trapped by flash floods, debris flows and washed out roadways.The famous bald eagles who live near Big Bear Lake quickly took cover, roosting high in the trees, finding protection from the storm’s punch. Eagle watcher Sandy Steers said the pair “are doing just fine” on Tuesday, Aug. 22.
Los Angeles Zoo keepers gather southern mountain yellow-legged frog tadpoles from their critically endangered frog’s breeding room on Tuesday, October 2, 2018 before releasing them into a forest stream in the San Gabriel Mountains, their natural habitat. They have raised and released around 1500 tadpoles from frogs raised from tadpoles saved after the Station Fire with hopes of saving the species from extinction.
Experts point out the bigger threats to wildlife are caused by humans, not nature, from global climate change due to burning of fossil fuels bringing more intense wildfires and hotter oceans, to development gobbling up habitat once relied on for foraging and mating, to motorists crashing into animals on freeways.
Black bears, more common in the Angeles National Forest and foothill communities of the San Gabriel Valley, will go back into their dens to wait out storms, said Jamie Uyehara, a U.S. Forest Service wildlife biologist and resources and planning officer at the“Deer will go underneath the chaparral. Those areas can stay fairly dry,” Uyehara added.
“When you have flash flooding, a big group of animals live in streams. All of a sudden you get a huge pulse of water that can affect these amphibians,” Riley said. He added that adult mountain lions avoid rushing streams. But one puma kitten drowned in a flash flood a few years ago, he said.re-introduce the mountain yellow-legged frogs, nurtured into adulthood at the Los Angeles Zoo
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