In celebration of Save The Frogs Day, In Defense of Animals is hosting a film screening of “The Toad Detour,” a beautiful documentary highlighting one community’s efforts to save their local amphibians. Each spring, toads and other amphibians wake from their winter slumber and migrate to vernal pools to breed. Sadly, they often have to cross roads to get there and many are killed by cars. The creation of the Toad Detour program highlights just one way people can help save the frogs. Join us for a screening of this wonderful film, followed by a Q & A with members of the original Toad Detour project Lisa Levinson and Doug Wechsler, and the film’s creator Burgess Coffield. Speaker Bios: Burgess Coffield, husband and father of four, currently works as a full time video editor in Salt Lake City, Utah. He has always been drawn to stories that most people may not see, but are worth telling. After making The Toad Detour, Burgess has made short documentaries about Postpartum Depression and the effects of OCD. His short film After Birth won Best Short Documentary at the Los Angeles Short Film Festival. He has also done some short horror films which have played at the Salt Lake Comic Con. Lisa Levinson, Campaigns Director for In Defense of Animals, started the Toad Detour in 2008 to help migrating toads cross a busy road in Philadelphia. The Detour grew to over 200 eager volunteers with popular Toad Walks. The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education adopted the Toad Detour in 2012 and it’s still going strong! Doug Wechsler is a children’s book author, photographer, and naturalist. He is a research associate at the Academy of Natural Sciences at Drexel University where he has worked for 28 years. He has been a student of amphibians for nearly his entire life. Among his 25 books are The Hidden Life of a Toad, Frog Heaven: Ecology of a Vernal Pool, and a six-book series, The Really Wild Life of Frogs.