Wildlife Activities
Research and Monitoring - Relict Leopard Frog
Relict Leopard Frog
The National Park Service (NPS) is currently studying and monitoring the Relict leopard frog (Lithobates onca). The LCR MSCP’s role is to give monetary support of $10,000 a year for 10 years of the program to the NPS through an Inter-Agency Agreement. This funding helps augment the NPS budget so additional research and monitoring may be conducted that otherwise would not have been possible. This includes monitoring historical sites where relict leopard frogs are found, the rearing, translocation, and augmentation of frogs and tadpoles to suitable but unoccupied habitat within their historic range as well as researching additional areas with the potential to provide suitable habitat for translocation.
For additional information on this project, please refer to Work Task C4: Relict Leopard Frog (PDF). Find Technical Reports for this Work Task here.
Updated October 14, 2011