Frog Week is a Citizen Science Project

 created by IUP graduate student AAron Capouellez, The Frog Week project conserves frogs and toads in Pennsylvania. This citizen science project monitors wild populations of American toads, wood frogs, gray tree frogs, and pickerel frogs while filming them for educational and entertaining videos for a YouTube and fieldwork conservation project with our partner,  Woods and Forests Media. Key features of the project:

•  Documenting frogs to enhance wild populations

• Road rescues to move frogs off busy roads

• Rescuing wounded or sick frogs and taking them to wildlife rehabilitation centers

• Hosting Frog Walks (nature hikes) to teach the community about the frogs and toads in their backyards

• Showcasing ambassador animals with Critter Talks

• Creating backyard habitats and monitoring them for suburban frogs and toads

• Relocating tadpoles from drying vernal pools

• Presenting our fieldwork on the Woods and Forests Media YouTube channel to share the results with the community

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Frog Week is the first citizen science project of PA Woods and Forests.