This weekend: Learn about frogs and toads, and help the Rouge River

By Michael Jackman

Feb 26, 2016 at 10:59 am

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This weekend: Learn about frogs and toads, and help the Rouge River

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Want to learn about wildlife in the Rouge watershed, and maybe pick up a bit of knowledge about frogs and toads along the way? Get in touch with Friends of the Rouge. They're seeking volunteers for this year's Frog and Toad survey.

How's that? Well, if you show up for a special training workshop this weekend, the Friends of the Rouge will teach you how to detect the presence of these slippery little leapers. Why is that important? Because healthy populations of frogs and toads are excellent indicators of overall watershed health. Having people out in the field to report back on what they hear is one of the best ways to gauge just how environmentally healthy the area around the Rouge River's many tributaries really is.

But you have to attend the training workshop. We've attended one before, and they're actually pretty interesting. The one event this year is scheduled for 10 a.m.- noon Saturday Feb. 27, at the Livonia Civic Center Library, 32777 Five Mile Rd., Livonia. To sign up, call 313-792-9621 or email [email protected].

To learn more about the findings from the survey, see the FOTR website at therouge.org.

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Michael Jackman

Born in 1969 at Mount Carmel hospital in Detroit, Jackman grew up just 100 yards from the Detroit city line in east Dearborn. Jackman has attended New York University, the School of Visual Arts, Northwestern University and Wayne State University, though he never got a degree. He has worked as a bar back, busboy,...