Toad Money

What happened to that $100,000 in federal grant money sent to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service?

They turned it into a toad.

Or several, I suppose.

The US Fish and Wildlife Service, Wyoming Ecological Services Field Office, has regulatory authority for the recovery of the endangered Wyoming Toad (Bufo baxteri). The Wyoming Toad is endemic to the Laramie Basin of Wyoming. The acquisition of Mortensen Lake National Wildlife Refuge and the enrollment of private lands within the Laramie Basin under the Laramie Rivers Conservation District’s Wyoming Toad Safe Harbor program have recently provided the Wyoming Toad with multiple recovery sites within its historic range.

A hundred grand isn't much by today's standards, but that's still money that didn't necessarily have to be spent.