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To: sandintoes who wrote (53166)	2/8/2003 2:46:21 AM
From: Sarkie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

Frog-Jumping Contest Allowed to Leap Forward Feb 7, 9:58 am ET ANGELS CAMP, California (Reuters) - The celebrated jumping frogs of Calaveras County made famous by Mark Twain can keep on hopping. Organizers had feared the Department of Fish and Game this year would enforce a law prohibiting the release of frogs back into the wild -- a decision that could have meant the death of thousands of the four-legged creatures and the end of the contest. The problem was that the bullfrogs used in the competition are a non-native species that have moved in on the red-legged frog made famous by Mark Twain's short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." While it is not illegal to catch the amphibians, it is against the law to release them back into the wild. This caused animal rights activists and others to worry that the frogs would be killed after the contest -- a scenario that put in peril the event held every May in Angel Camp in the Sierra Nevada foothills some 133 miles from San Francisco. But state officials found a loophole in the law that allowed frogs to be returned to the wild if they were used in jumping contests. The frog-jumping jubilee has grown so big that 40,000 people visit the town each year to witness the leaping amphibians bound for glory.