{"id":242726,"date":"2026-08-14T17:08:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T22:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/in-1877-trout-began-entering-yosemites-fishfree-mountain-lakes-more-than-a-century-later-a-native-frog-is-finally-showing-signs-of-recovery"},"modified":"2026-08-14T17:08:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T22:08:45","slug":"in-1877-trout-began-entering-yosemites-fishfree-mountain-lakes-more-than-a-century-later-a-native-frog-is-finally-showing-signs-of-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/in-1877-trout-began-entering-yosemites-fishfree-mountain-lakes-more-than-a-century-later-a-native-frog-is-finally-showing-signs-of-recovery","title":{"rendered":"In 1877, trout began entering Yosemite\u2019s fishfree mountain lakes. More than a century later, a native frog is finally showing signs of recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-1877-trout-began-entering-yosemites-fishfree-mountain-lakes-more-than-a-century-later-a-native-frog-is-finally-showing-signs-of-recovery.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more than a century, Yosemite\u2019s mountain lakes became home to millions of trout that had never naturally reached those waters. Fish stocking began in 1877 and eventually put more than 33 million fish into the park, transforming habitats that had evolved without aquatic predators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For more than a century, Yosemite\u2019s mountain lakes became home to millions of trout that had never naturally reached those waters. Fish stocking began in 1877 and eventually put more than 33 million fish into the park, transforming habitats that had evolved without aquatic predators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}