The morning of June 7, 2023 marked an annual, early summer tradition for Cheyenne Mountain Zoo and several other facilities tasked with raising the tiny, imperiled creature. June is typically when members of the Wyoming Toad Recovery Team converge at the Mortenson Lake National Wildlife Refuge outside Laramie, Wyo., to release toads to their only known North American home in the wild where they once flourished. Cheyenne Mountain Zoo provided more than 200 growing toads last week — the latest among 41,629 tadpoles and 1,151 adults counted previously over the past 26 years involved in the effort. (Video by Skyler Ballard/ The Gazette)