Coeur d'Alene Salamander

Research Objectives:

1. To study the population of the Coeur d'Alene Salamander in South Eastern B.C.:
2. Identify successful habitat locations and specific requirements.
3. Make recommendations to preserve these critical habitat requirements.

Preliminary Findings:

1. Eighteen specific locations have been found to have breeding Coeur d'Alene Salamander populations in the Creston Valley and north along Kootenay Lake.
2. The numbers of individuals in each area appears to be small- less than 50 in most cases.
3. Habitat requirements appear to be moist splash zones by creeks and waterfalls in combination with fractured rock.
4. Recommendations are being formulated to protect these sites at  present.

Funding or Management Agencies:

B.C. Ministry of Environment >Forest Renewal B.C.
Habitat Conservation Trust Fund
Wynndell Box and Lumber 

For more Information on Habits & Habitat
see the following web site:

Columbia Basin: Endangered Species & Spaces

For more information on the Tailed Frog research
projects contact:

Ted Rutherglen, MSc, RPBio
Regional Rare & Endangered Species Biologist
#401 - 333 Victoria St.
Nelson, B.C.
V1L  4K3
ted.antifeau@gems5.gov.bc.ca

Or get a copy of the Video:
Amphibians and Reptiles of the Columbia Basin

Penny Ohanjanean, MSc
Registered Professional Field Biologist