ATLANTIC COAST LEOPARD FROG BEING FOUND IN WIDE RANGE OF NEW JERSEY HABITATS

DEP’S ENDANGERED AND NONGAME SPECIES PROGRAM PLAYING KEY ROLE
IN RESEARCH ON \”NEW\” FROG SPECIES

TRENTON – For Division of Fish and Wildlife Endangered and Nongame Species Program zoologist Brian Zarate, having a hand in helping to \”discover\” a new frog species in a state as populated and urbanized as New Jersey is both a \”very cool\” and \”humbling\” experience.

Zarate and the DEP’s Endangered and Nongame Species Program are currently participating in an ongoing effort to map the potential range of the Atlantic Coast leopard frog, a newly identified species being found in places as diverse as New Jersey’s Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, the Meadowlands, marshlands along the Delaware River and Delaware Bay, Cape May Point State Park, and along stretches of the state’s coastline.