Northern prairie skinks in Manitoba: Where are they?
Presentation Abstracts: RECOVERY EFFORTS ARE UNDERWAY FOR NORTHERN LEOPARD FROGS (RANA PIPIENS) IN BRITISH COLUMBIA AND ALBERTA – Doug Adama1* and Kris Kendell2 1Adama Wildlife and the Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife Compensation Program, Box 158, Golden, British Columbia, Canada, V0A 1H0, adama@rockies.net 2Alberta Conservation Association, 7th Floor, O.S. Longman Building, 6909-116 Street, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6H 4P2, kris.kendell@gov.ab.ca One method of recovery employed in both Provinces entails the rearing of R. pipiens eggs and larvae to metamorphoses and reintroducing the newly metamorphosed frogs into historical habitat. While the rearing of amphibians is hardly a recent endeavor, rearing amphibians for conservation is. In Alberta, R. pipiens are reared in semi-natural outdoor ponds at the Raven Brood Trout Station. A natural diet of algae and other wetland vegetation is available as food for the larva. Drawing down the water over winter controls predatory aquatic insec
