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Toads and turtles are everwhere around my house in the summer (US Midwest). Hear frogs all night too. I accidentally ran over a turtle with my lawn mower last s

• akimball 8y ago
  In my childhood regions, amphibians and reptiles were at least 4x in the 60s. They tend to be more tightly clustered now. The clusters are more distant from each other, and the spaces between more sparsely populated. Not in any danger of extinction just yet, at least for the common species. Perhaps many minor species are gone - I wouldn't be able to tell. Just about the only things to thrive have been feral cats, birds, bats, squirrels, mice, rabbits and deer. They are an absolute infestation.