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Toad Detour Training

Name: Toad Detour Training
Start: 2025-02-08T13:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-02-08T15:00:00-05:00
Location: The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education

February 8, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Free

A toad on the street next to a orange cone and a triangle sign that reads Roxborough Reservoir Toad Detour.

Learn how to protect our toads!

Toad Detour protects the local toad population as they migrate to and from their breeding grounds each spring. When the toads emerge from brumation (the reptile version of hibernation) in the early spring, hundreds of them cross Port Royal, Hagy’s Mill and other nearby roads to mate in the Roxborough Reservoir or the Schuylkill Center’s ponds. Toad Detour season runs from March 1st to June 30th. On select nights, when the conditions are just right, Toad Detour volunteers erect barricades and help divert traffic during busy toad crossing evenings, saving hundreds of toads.

This family-friendly Toad Detour volunteer training session will be hosted at the Visitor Center, from 1-3pm on Saturday, February 8th. Sign up to let us know you are coming.

Can’t make it on this date? We have a virtual training on February 22nd at 1:00pm. Sign up for the virtual training HERE.

Details

Date:: February 8, 2025
Time:: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cost:: Free
Event Categories:: Free, Volunteer
Event Tags:: volunteer

Organizer

: The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education
Phone: 215-482-7300
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Venue

: The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education
: 8480 Hagy's Mill Road
Philadelphia, PA 19128 United States + Google Map
Phone: 215-482-7300

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our wildlife clinic

IF YOU HAVE FOUND AN INJURED WILD ANIMAL, the Schuylkill Center Wildlife Clinic can help! At the Wildlife Clinic, our goal is to provide professional care to sick, injured, and orphaned native wildlife so healthy animals can be returned to their natural habitat.

Please call our 24-hour wildlife hotline at 215-482-7300, option 2 to for our team to assist. Do not try to pick up or move an inured animal until you have spoken with a professional who can guide you on the safest method of action.

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