Tribe: Upper Snake River Tribes
View Source Document: USRT Adaptation Strategy Database _Full Version Aug 2020
Year: 2020
Topic: Columbia Spotted Frog
Establish protection and conservation of Columbia Spotted Frogs through conservation agreements, conservation easements, land purchase, land exchange, and charitable donation.
Provide technical assistance to willing landowners to develop Candidate Conservation Agreements with Assurances. Candidate Conservation Agreements (CCAs) are voluntary conservation...
Develop brochures and other materials on the impacts of climate change to the Columbia spotted frog and its management needs...
Electroshock and/or gill netting of aquatic invasive species to reduce overall stress on frogs and help increase their ability to...
Recreational facilities near documented population centers should have educational signs or pamphlets pertaining to frogs in the area and how...
Public outreach to prevent the establishment of invasive species that can exacerbate climate impacts on native amphibians.
Maintain natural vegetation buffer zones around ponds; for example, 160 m from the edge of wetlands and 30-100 m along...
Fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides should not be applied within 100m of water bodies and wetlands until lethal and sublethal impacts...
Develop a Columbia spotted frog Species Management Plan.
Remove livestock from known hibernation sites.
Conduct annual workload analysis to determine the budgetary and biological staffing needs to accomplish conservation actions identified in the implementation...
Manage grazing on stream habitat to avoid compaction, late season vegetative loss, willow damage, stream channelization and down-cutting.
