The U.S. Fish and Wild Life Service has set aside 98,366 acres of habitat for the endangered Aroyo Toad in California. The habitat stretches from areas of Monterrey to San Diego Counties. This new habitat designation ends a decade long fight between the USFWS and the Center for Biological Diversity over the future of the Toad. At the beginning the USFWS attempted to designate 478,000 acres to the Toad but this was scaled back after it was met from opposition from the public and private developers. The final designation for the arroyo toad includes about 72,596 acres of private lands, 21,982 acres under federal jurisdiction, 2,128 acres of state property and 1,660 acres of locally owned lands, said Lois Grunwald, a spokeswoman for the USFWS.