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Photo by Tyler Abbott Wyoming toad released under the Safe Harbor Agreement
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Date: 2004:06:08 02:42:58
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Upload Date: 2008:02:28 21:50:51
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Photo by Tyler Abbott Wyoming toad released under the Safe Harbor Agreement
Wyoming Toad Safe Harbor
Agreement Success Story
As a result
of a cooperative effort among the Laramie Rivers Conservation District, the
Buford Foundation and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in 2005, over
6,000 endangered Wyoming toad tadpoles and 15 adult toads were released on
private property owned by the Buford Foundation in Albany County, Wyo. This
reintroduction is a result of a safe harbor agreement with Laramie River
Conservation District signed in August 2004, and numerous hours of work
between all the partners in the process including the Laramie River
Conservation District, privately run Buford Foundation, Natural Resource
Conservation Service, the Service’s own Partner, Refuges, Fisheries and
Ecological Services programs and the Wyoming State Game and Fish Department.
The safe harbor agreement allows the Service, with permission of enrolled
landowners, to release the critically endangered Wyoming toad onto private
land to help recover the species while at the same time providing the
landowner with assurances that their activities will not be constrained by
the Endangered Species Act. As part of the agreement, a permit to enhance
the toad’s survival is issued which authorizes incidental take of Wyoming
toads resulting from agricultural-related activities like crop cultivation,
livestock grazing, etc., on enrolled property as well as adjacent
neighboring lands. Conservation benefits for the toad under a safe harbor
agreement include finding out more about Wyoming toad ecology in general,
and specifically, maintaining, enhancing and/or creating habitat and new
populations, expanding the current range of the Wyoming toad and decreasing
habitat fragmentation within its range. In 2006, another landowner has
stepped forward to become part of this umbrella agreement for the Wyoming
toad. This property, currently a fully functional cattle operation will be
enrolling 40 acres to help recover the Wyoming toad. We also have an
additional landowner interested in signing up in 2007. Because the majority
of suitable habitat is on private lands, this Safe Harbor Agreement and
associated Enhancement of Survival Permit are critical to recovering this
critically endangered species. This SHA was highlighted by the Service at
the recent 2005 National Association of Conservation Districts in Houston,
Texas.
Photo by Tyler Abbott Wyoming toad released under the Safe Harbor Agreement
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