Originally Posted by Texas Parks & Wildlife Department

AUSTIN, Texas -- Recent rains in Central Texas not only watered residential lawns and filled ranch cattle tanks, but also brought much needed relief to one of the most imperiled species in Texas -- the endangered and elusive Houston toad, Bufo houstonensis. Ironically named the Houston toad, it disappeared from Harris County by the 1970's. Historic prolonged droughts combined with rapid urbanization and habitat loss are the primary reasons for the toad's decline.