Although its California cousins are rare and growing rarer, this species seems to be thriving, at least in the various streams, ponds, and lakes that I visited on our summer trip. These three photos show three progressively larger individuals that I saw in different places on the same day. The first one pictured here was probably a tadpole not too long ago; it was about an inch long, living in a large pond. The second one was about 2 1/2 inches long, and was living in a stream. The third and fourth photos show the same nice big fat frog, about 4 inches long. It was leaping about on the forest floor in the general vicinity of a stream.

Here's another fairly young frog, living in some really disgusting muck at the edges of the aptly-named Mud Lake.