The Cold Blooded News The Newsletter of the Colorado Herpetological Society Volume 28, Number 2;   February, 2001

Grouse, Prairie Dog, Boreal Toads, Lynx Top Species Conservation Efforts

Black-tailed prairie dogs, Canada lynx. sharp-tailed grouse, and boreal toads were among the many species benefiting from Colorado Division of Wildlife efforts to preserve, protect and enhance wildlife in 2000.

. . . during 2000, the Division opened the $6 million John W. Mumma Native Aquatic Species Restoration Facility southwest of Alamosa. The hatchery is the first in the nation dedicated to raising threatened and endangered fish, amphibian, and mollusks species.

Among its first residents were a dozen boreal toads and hundreds of eggs, collected from breeding sites in early May, to build a captive brood stock at the facility as insurance against extinction. The facility had good success hatching the eggs and, by the end of the year, housed toads from 11 imperiled populations throughout the state.

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