A coyote hops over a fence onto a snow-covered meadow in front of Curry Village in Yosemite National Park looking for food on Thursday, Dec. 27, 2007. Tomas Ovalle The Fresno Bee As if animals ...

The male Yosemite toad (Anaxyrus canorus) can mate like mad every year—for about two weeks. Only in late spring. And only in wet meadows, at elevations above 4,800 feet, in California’s Sierra ...

which ranges from Yosemite National Park to Kings Canyon National Park, as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act even though the species occurs in the Cascades to Mt. Hood in Oregon, ...