Drink Beer, Save Forest Park’s Northern Red

Ferment Brewing’s latest seasonal release is hoppy in more ways than one.

The brewery has released Red Legged Ale, a seasonal hoppy red ale, in honor of the Northern red-legged frogs in Forest Park. Proceeds from the beer go to Oregon Wildlife Foundation’s efforts to protect the amphibian as it migrates between Forest Park and nearby wetlands to breed.

According to OWF , in early winter, the frogs will migrate between their habitat near the Linnton part of Forest Park to Harborton wetland near the Willamette River to lay their eggs. This journey has gotten much more difficult, as the froggies now need to descend down a hill near Linnton, cross five lanes of Highway 30 traffic, a set of railroad tracks and Marina Drive. They then have to repeat this process to get home.

Volunteers have