Roderick Sprague
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- Moscow Idaho
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I live in Moscow Idaho (USA) on the Palouse. I reverted my yard to mostly Palouse Prairie. Many years ago, I installed a 250 gallon pond form in my yard and placed native aquatic plants in it. Over 20 years ago, my church (Unitarian Universalist Church of the Palouse) wanted to rear local Ambystoma macrodactylum from eggs so the children could learn important things like how ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, that sort of thing. I reared the the eggs to adults and large larvae until the summer in an aquarium out on the North side of the church with backups (in case something happened to the ones at church) in an aquarium outside my house under the shade of my front porch. During the church's summer break, I put the mature and larval salamanders in my yard pond. The salamanders have bred in the pond almost every year since then. About five years ago, they were joined by Pseudacris regilla (Pacific treefrogs) that began calling yesterday; 4/4/2024.