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Friday Night at the Refuge
The refuge will be open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Come enjoy a walk along the Shorebird Loop Trail during the evening hours and presentation at the Visitor Center at 7 p.m.
This month, Research Ecologist, Brian Hudgens, and Wildlife Biologist Melissa Harbert, both from the Institute for Wildlife Studies will present “Red-Legged Frog Breeding Ecology at Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge”
How many eggs do red-legged frogs lay in a season? How many of those eggs become tadpoles? How many tadpoles metamorph into froglets? How many succumb to predators? How much do things change from place to place and year to year?
Please join us as we address these questions for red-legged frogs breeding at Hookton Slough, as well as, Mendocino County CA and the Willamette Valley OR, and discuss what the answers mean for how climate change will impact red-legged frogs throughout their range.
Brian Hudgens is a research ecologist at the Institute for Wildlife Studies where he has spent the past 12 years working with a wide range of species, including butterflies, birds, and, of course, frogs. He uses a combination of field studies with statistical and simulation modeling studies to address problems in wildlife conservation.
Melissa Harbert is a wildlife biologist at the Institute for Wildlife Studies. She has been working with red-legged frogs for the past two years, marking thousands of tadpoles and hundreds of froglets.
Take the Hookton Road Exit #696 off Highway 101 and meet at the Richard J. Guadagno Headquarters and Visitor Center, 1020 Ranch Road in Loleta.
For more information and special accommodation, call (707) 733-5406 or visit www.fws.gov/refuge/humboldt_bay/
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