Young campers caught this blue morph green frog at Townshend State Park in Vermont, where Tiffany Soukup and her husband Chris served as rangers. In blue morph frogs, a genetic mutation prevents the production of yellow pigment that normally combines with blue to create green skin color. Blue morphs are rare – how rare, is open for debate – but they’re less common than “blue moons” (approximately 3.5 percent of full moons, and not actually blue). Soukup returned the frog to the edge of the brook where the campers had found it. She took its photo, and “then it hopped away.”
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The Northern Woodlands staff first met Tiffany and her husband Chris in 2013, when they hosted a staff and board retreat at Vermont’s Seyon Lodge State Park. Tiffany has since written several essays for The Outside Story series, and she also supplied the striking photograph of a dragonfly that appeared on the cover of our Autumn 2018 issue.
Here’s an interview of Tiffany that we published that year, describing the couple’s frequent international travel, and why she enjoys working as a steward of state parks.
So what have the Soukups been up to recently? For the past several months, they have worked at the Appalachian Mountain Club’s Little Lyford Lodge and Cabins in Maine’s Moosehead region. Their most recent overseas adventure was this past autumn, when they spent time in The Pantanal in Brazil, the world’s largest tropical wetland.
Follow Tiffany's blog Vagabond Way here.
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