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Red-legged frog eggs

Mark Mendelsohn, a biologist with the National Park Service, closely examines California red-legged frog egg masses that were collected in the Upper Las Virgenes Canyon Open Space Preserve for eventual transport to a wetlands habitat in the Santa Monica Mountains.

Mark Mendelsohn, a biologist with the National Park Service, closely examines California red-legged frog egg masses that were collected in the Upper Las Virgenes Canyon Open Space Preserve for eventual transport to a wetlands habitat in the Santa Monica Mountains.   (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

Federal biologists and ecologists are moving hundreds of red-legged frog eggs to a new habitat in the Santa Monica Mountains.

Upper Las Virgenes Canyon Open Space Preserve

Federal ecologists and biologists search for hundreds of California red-legged frog eggs in the Upper Las Virgenes Canyon Open Space Preserve.   (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

Collecting red-legged frog eggs

Katy Delaney, left, a federal wildlife ecologist, and Mark Mendelsohn, a National Park Service biologist, wade into deep water as they prepare to collect hundreds of California red-legged frog eggs in the Upper Las Virgenes Canyon Open Space Preserve.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

Frog eggs

Wildlife ecologist Katy Delaney counts red-legged frog egg masses. The move of the threatened species is part of a federal program to re-establish the threatened species in other habitats.   (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

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Packing up

Chris Trumpy, right, a project analyst with the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority hands a second cooler containing red-legged frog eggs to biologist Mark Mendelsohn.   (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

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