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The Fence Post

What is a Frog Fence?

September 7, 2010 | by Duncan Page

Brown Frog on Leaf

Protecting Our Web-footed Friends

Roadkill

  • In the Sandbar Wildlife Management Area on the northeast shore of Lake Champlain in Vermont, a frog fence is used to reduce roadkill of leopard frogs along a state highway
  • In the Klamath Basin in Oregon, a frog fence is used to protect Oregon spotted frogs from being decimated by the heavy tread of grazing cattle
  • In the backyards of America, frog fences are used to keep frogs out of swimming pools

Barriers

 - In Vermont, rolls of silt fence are put up along both sides of the highway for three months. Openings were left at 100-foot intervals in the 1,000 foot-long fence

 - In Oregon, a three-and-a-half-mile-long fence was erected as a cattle barrier

Around swimming pools, a wire fence made with 1/8" hardware cloth or a small mesh plastic fence high enough to prevent frogs from jumping over is effective.

Here's how one family attacked their toad problem (complete with musical accompaniment):

 

Have you ever seen a frog fence?

          Have you ever built a frog fence that was effective?  Care to share any tips?

                       Should state or federal money be allocated for frog fences?

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