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Distribution of Sensitive Amphibians in the KRIS Mendocino Project Area

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California Department of Fish and Game memos, Humboldt State University (Kitchen, 1992) studies and University of California zoological samples confirm that tailed frogs and southern torrent salamanders were distributed throughout the KRIS Mendocino project area. Recent surveys of the Ten Mile River basin showed tailed frogs present at some sites surveyed from 1993-1999 (Ambrose and Hines, 1998). CDFG collections documented the existence of tailed frogs in a tributary to the North Fork of the South Fork Noyo River (Macedo, 2000). Kitchen (1992) documented that southern torrent salamanders occurred in Parlin Creek, in the South Fork Noyo basin (see note from Dr. Hartwell Welsh, USFS Redwood Sciences Lab).

Data from the Mattole Basin represent the best information available on known relationships of sensitive amphibians, riparian habitat change and changes in temperature regimes related to land use in northwestern California.

References

Ambrose, J., and D. Hines. 1998. Ten Mile River Watershed 1997 Instream Monitoring Results. Georgia-Pacific West Inc. dba The Timber Company. Fort Bragg, CA. 51 pp.

Kitchen, D. 1992. Baseline studies of birds, mammals, amphibians, and reptiles and basic WHR analysis of wildlife on the Jackson State Demonstration Forest. Humboldt State University, Arcata CA. Dept. Wildlife & Fisheries. (Unpublished report)

Macedo, R. 2000. Abbreviated Electrofishing Survey and Watercourse Classification of Unnamed Tributary to the North Fork of the South Fork Noyo River; Downstream of the Brandon Gulch / North Fork of the South Fork Noyo River Confluence; Brandon Gulch 2000 THP; Jackson Demonstration State Forest, Mendocino County. Region 3, CDFG, Yountville, CA.

Welsh, H.H. Redwood Sciences Laboratory, Arcata, CA.