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

Toad Detour Training (Virtual)

December 9, 2024

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 held virtually, from 1-3pm on Saturday, February 22.

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Prefer to attend our in-person training? We have another training session scheduled for February 8th at 1:00pm at Schuylkill Center. Learn more HERE.

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

Toad Detour Training

December 9, 2024

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.

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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.

Toadlet Time!

June 6, 2022
San Juan Capistrano might have its famous return of migrating swallows and turkey vultures might return to roost every Ides of March in Hinckley, Ohio, but neither town has anything over Roxborough. For Roxborough has the annual return of American toads. And the toad’s life cycle hit a big milestone last week. Each spring, thousands of hibernating toads awaken from their hibernating places deep under the Center’s forest leaf litter. When they do, they want to move to water, as their instinctual pull is to mate right away, and toads, residents of the forest during summer and fall, lay eggs…

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TreeVitalizing Our Forests

October 10, 2020
By Drew Rinaldi Subits, Land Stewardship Coordinator You may have recently noticed a large clearing across the trail from Pine Grove, which has been steadily cleared and then mowed and maintained throughout the Spring and Summer months. If you have been there more recently, you may have noticed fencing and a young grove of trees and shrubs. This newest planting effort was possible through the collaboration of our Land and Facilities team, a state-funded tree planting grant initiative from TreeVitalize, and a RJ Carbone, a local young man looking to complete his Eagle Scout project. For the past five years,…

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