Rock climbers campaign to access local cliff closed to protect endangered frogs.

Williamson Rock is a sheer granite wall that rises from chaparral in the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument. Crisscrossed with 300 routes, it has been a proving ground for Southern California rock climbers since the 1960s.
But in a move that outraged many in the climbing community, the area was shut down in 2005 to protect an isolated colony of federally endangered Southern California mountain yellow-legged frogs from being trampled.

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-reopen-williamson-rock-20181010-story.html

Posted on October 10, 2018 12:48 PM by biohexx1