This article was originally featured on High Country News. The Wyoming toad, which evolved to live in a small slice of southeastern Wyoming, is one of the most endangered amphibians in North America.

Federal authorities have unveiled the establishment of two recently inaugurated national wildlife refuges in Wyoming and Tennessee, serving as critical sanctuaries for endangered and threatened ...

Wyoming toads are rare and, in the wild, live only in a wildlife refuge west of Laramie. Scientists thought them to be extinct in the wild just a couple of decades ago. But an effort that the Cheyenne ...

(COLORADO SPRINGS) — The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo (CMZoo) posted that in early June, a group of volunteers and conservation experts gathered to release hundreds of Wyoming toads back into their native ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of the Interior on Tuesday announced the establishment of the Wyoming Toad Conservation Area in Wyoming as the 569th unit of the National Wildlife Refuge System, ...

Researchers at the Memphis Zoo have joined forces with other zoos in trying to reintroduce the endangered Wyoming toad back into the wild. JACKSON - If Albany County residents happen upon a toad in ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Two newly created national wildlife refuges in Tennessee and Wyoming will help protect habitats for threatened and endangered species such as toads, bats, shrimp and salamanders, ...

Western lawmakers and members of Congress are pushing to change the Endangered Species Act. They want states to have more control over which... Wyoming Toads Begin To Recover As States Seek Endangered ...

The Wyoming toad, which evolved to live in a small slice of southeastern Wyoming, is one of the most endangered amphibians in North America. But now, at least, it will have more room to recover: On ...

CAPTION CORRECTION: CORRECTS REFUGE LOCATION: This undated photo shows the newly established Paint Rock River National Wildlife Refuge in Tennessee. Federal officials have announced the creation of ...