More than 1 million Houston toad eggs have been released at Bastrop State Park this spring as part of efforts to reintroduce the endangered species after it disappeared from the park more than a decade ago.
Several organizations, including the Texas Parks and Wildlife and the Houston Zoo, have made efforts to reintroduce the Houston toad to the park outside Austin since 2015, four years after the Bastrop County Complex Wildfire, according to a TPWD news release. Attempts in 2015 and 2019 were deemed unsuccessful.
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