California Red-Legged Frog 2010 Workshop

The Elkhorn Slough Coastal Training Program is pleased to announce the California Red-Legged Frog Workshop for 8 a.m. - 6 p.m., April 8, 2010 at the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve. The workshop will consist of classroom lectures complimented by an afternoon field component. Intended audiences include: biological consultants, land managers, researchers, and regulatory agency personnel.

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Date

Thursday, April 8, 2010
8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve
Watsonville
Lunch will be provided

Registration Information

COST: 375.00 payable by check to Elkhorn Slough Foundation

REGISTRATION FOR THIS PROGRAM IS CLOSED

CONTACT:
Grey Hayes
grey@elkhornslough.org
831-274-8700

DESCRIPTION

Workshop registration also includes attendance at one of two night time field training sessions on the evenings of either April 7 or April 8. More information on those field training sessions can be found on the Coastal Training Program website.

Workshop Objectives: This is a great opportunity to receive training in species identification, field sampling techniques, and the habitat requirements of the California red-legged frog (CRLF). Workshop information will be useful for conservation planning and for educational outreach to agricultural producers and others who are considering projects that may impact CRLF. It will also provide foundational knowledge for monitoring projects where potential impacts to CRLF have been identified.

Workshop Format:

April 8^th Workshop Morning Session (8:00am-2:00pm) - Classroom: Overview of biology and management of the California red-legged frog. Meet at the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve.

Afternoon Session (2:00pm-6:00pm) - Field Trip to areas on the North Coast of Santa Cruz County: Habitat requirements, corridors, pond designs, metapopulations dynamics, and survey techniques. Personal vehicles required to travel to field sites.

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Evening Field Practicum (either April 7 or April 8, 2010, 8:00pm-midnight) - Your registration includes attendance at one of the two field training sessions on. In order to reduce teacher:student ratio, we are limiting each session to 12 participants. After pre-registering, please email us your preferred date of attendance; include a note if you are not flexible in the date that you are able to attend. We cannot guarantee you your preferred date, but we will do what we can to accommodate your preference.

These sessions are at the Granite Rock Sand Quarry, just north of the City of Santa Cruz on Highway 1. Instructors will demonstrate capturing, handling, sexing, and measuring of adult frogs and PIT tagging techniques

INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION

Dr. Galen Rathbun
Research Associate
California Academy of Sciences

Dr. Norman Scott, Jr.

DOCUMENTS AND PUBLICATIONS

Contact List
We encourage participants to download the contact list to assist with arranging a rideshare or to get in contact with someone you met at the workshop. Those interested in sharing a ride to the event are marked on the contact list.

DOCUMENT	AUTHOR / SOURCE
WORKSHOP MATERIALS
Bibliography of Techniques Applicable to California Red-Legged Frog (Rana draytonii) Study and Management PDF, 121KB	Galen Rathbun and Norman Scott Elkhorn Slough Coastal Training Program
Bibliography: California Red-Legged Frog Citations and Descriptions of Relevant Literature PDF, 320KB	Galen Rathbun and Norman Scott Elkhorn Slough Coastal Training Program
Presentation: California Red-Legged Frog Workshop 2010 PDF, 9.9MB	Norman Scott and Galen Rathbun Elkhorn Slough Coastal Training Program
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Do a threatened native amphibian and its invasive congener differ in response to human alteration of the landscape? PDF, 199KB	Antonia D’Amore, Valentine Hemingway, Kerstin Wasson Biol Invasions
Evaluation of a Radio-Belt for Ranid Frogs PDF, 136KB	Galen Rathbun and Thomas Murphey Herpetological Review 27(4), 1996
Invasive species shifts ontogenetic resource partitioning and microhabitat use of a threatened native amphibian PDF, 164KB	Antonia D’Amore, Eric Kirby, Michael McNicholas Aquatic Conserv: Mar. Freshw. Ecosyst. 19: 534–541
Overwintering Tadpoles in the California Red-legged Frog (Rana aurora draytonii) PDF, 218KB	GARY M. FELLERS, ALAN E. LAUNER, GALEN RATHBUN, STEVE BOBZIEN, JEFF ALVAREZ, DAVID STERNER, RICHARD B. SEYMOUR, and MICHAEL WESTPHAL Herpetological Review 32(3),2001
Rana Draytonii (California Red-legged Frog). Behavior- Dangers of Drift Fences PDF, 62KB	Galen Rathbun, Norman Scott, Thomas Murphey Herpetological Review 28(2), 1997
Rana Draytonii (California Red-legged Frog). Egg Predation. PDF, 39KB	Galen Rathbun Herpetological Review 29(3), 1998
Rana Draytonii (California Red-legged Frog). Prey. PDF, 16KB	Marc P. Hayes, Mark R. Jennings, Galen B. Rathbun Herpetological Review 37(4), 2006
Reproductive Interference by an Invasive Species an Evolutionary Trap? PDF, 130KB	Antonia D’Amore, Eric Kirby, Valentine Hemingway Herpetological Conservation and Biology 4(3):325-330
Terrestrial activity and conservation of adult California red-legged frogs Rana aurora draytonii in coastal forests and grasslands PDF, 349KB	John B. Bulger, Norman J. Scott Jr., Richard B. Seymour Biological Conservation 110 (2003) 85–95
Translocation of California red-legged frogs (Rana aurora draytonii) PDF, 789KB	Galen Rathbun and Julie Schneider Wildlife Society Bulletin 29(4)1300-1305. 2001
OTHER INFORMATION
Management Guidlines for the California Red-Legged Frog PDF, 188KB	Drs. Galen Rathbun and Norman Scott Elkhorn Slough Coastal Training Program
READ ME: Critical Information for CRLF 2010 Field Practicum Participants PDF, 27KB	Grey Hayes ESCTP

LINKS

California Red-Legged Frog Sounds
http://www.californiaherps.com/frogs/pages/r.draytonii.sounds.html

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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Submit a question on this subject and we'll provide an answer. grey@elkhornslough.org

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