Tribe: Upper Snake River Tribes
View Source Document: USRT Adaptation Strategy Database _Full Version Aug 2020
Year: 2020
Topic: Columbia Spotted Frog
Public outreach to prevent the establishment of invasive species that can exacerbate climate impacts on native amphibians.
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...
Identify, restore and/or enhance, and manage areas of historic unoccupied and potential Columbia spotted frog habitat within the presumed historic...
Determine the distribution of breeding populations of Columbia Spotted Frog.
Identify and protect critical terrestrial habitats (e.g., movement zones, and seasonally wet areas that are not identified as “wetlands”) as...
Protect permanent ponds and river and stream habitat within at least 500 m of breeding ponds.
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...
