Welcome to the home of TUCSON RANA* -
A website devoted to the gathering and posting of information relating to Arizona's native species.
The Tucson Basin, Northern Sonoran Desert and rana species in particular.
To try and help promote awareness and understanding for all about the importance in saving native fauna and environment. Amphibians and reptiles are biological barometers of the ecosystem.
*Restoring Arizona's Native Amphibia
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Fish and Wildlife Service Draft Safe Harbor Agreement and Application for an Enhancement of Survival Permit for the Chiricahua Leopard Frog in Arizona (State-Wide) AGENCY: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice of availability; receipt of application. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The Arizona Game and Fish Department (AGFD) (Applicant) has applied to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) for an enhancement of survival permit pursuant to Section 10(a)(1)(A) of the Endangered Species Act (Act), as amended. The requested permit, which is for a period of 50 years, would authorize incidental take of the threatened Chiricahua leopard frog (Rana chiricahuensis) as a result of conservation actions, on-going livestock operations, recreation, land treatments, and other existing land-use activities. The Applicant would issue certificates of inclusion under a Safe Harbor Agreement (SHA) to private landowners who would voluntarily agree to implement appropriate conservation measures for the species. We invite the public to review and comment on the permit application and the associated draft SHA. Click to see full text - [Federal Register: August 2, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 148)] For those that did not receive a copy of the hand-out from Kathryn Mauz's Presentation at the August Meeting of The Tucson Watergardeners Club about the history of aquatic and riparian plants found in the Tucson Basin- Here it is: you will need Acrobat Tucson-historic-wetland-species_watergardeners082406.pdf NEW BOOK: "Amphibians, Reptiles, and their habitats at Sabino Canyon"
************************************************ Notice of Availability of the Draft Recovery Plan for the Click below to see the bad or below to see the ugly (results) courtesy of Pima County's Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan Please be responsible - Do Not Release unwanted plants or animals into the wild - If you have aquatic plants or animals you have to get rid of please contact the webmaster of this website or a member of The Tucson Watergardeners
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Congratulations to Laguna Elementary School staff and especially students! They are Grant recipients that with the help of many in the community have a new educational, relaxation pond. Click here to see past programs check out the pages below: BTW: we would like to post any articles anyone has found or written on any of The Tucson Watergardeners projects. Please submit to tucsonrana@cox.net
Still Wanted: Frog & toad song reporters. Anyone on the far northwest or on the east side of the Tucson Mts.? Do you want to do something to help declining amphibians?See a list of the wanted with images and sounds:Be part of the mapping of Tucson's frogs and toads. A planned three year study. Think globally and act locally. Local U of A researchers are looking for information on frog and toad choruses in the city of Tucson and surrounding areas. We need you to listen for frog and toad choruses in the vicinity of your home on rainy summer nights and/or if you have heard amphibians in past years anywhere in the Tucson area.
URGENT: Read the post from Phil Rosen- See a list of the wanted with images and sounds: (A page in progress, looking for images and recordings from anyone in the Tucson area. Please send to; tucsonrana@cox.net Print or download- Category and species sheet- .doc Print or download- Tucson Area Toad and Frog Larval Period Data -.doc Print or download- DATA SHEET DL form-.doc
Rillito River/Dodge to Ina Route Reports, je aug 09 2004 The Monsoon is not being kind to us this year. Except for the southeast and the north side of the Catalina's bringing water to the Pantano and Canada del Oro we are very dry. I haven't seen the Rillito at Dodge or Campbell running side to side yet. We still have a some time for central and west to get some wet. This is also a good time to plan out sites that you would want to go for the survey. Aug 2005 Yet another disappointing year for our wet season. The extended drought conditions are starting to been seen with more clarity now. Trees near the rivers are really starting to show stress. Even the cacti and "drought tolerant" plants are taking a beating. I heard very little activity on the normally noisy route. Let's hope for a better winter/spring rainfall. Reports from Mountain and Roger March 2006 Well that didn't help much. 2 in if we were lucky in the Roger/Mountain area for the winter. Hearing of more incidents of WILDLIFE coming into ponds. I would like to hear from any or all of you that have had or are having close encounters with said Wildlife. Had a raccoon attack in my pond this year, had to get over 5 ft walls to get in. Cats get in so I know there is no problem for one of the midnight bandits. Heard from CH that they had one drinking out of their dogs water dish. Saw him after the backyard motion light came on. So please email with creature, date, time, and location. Would be interesting to see if there are any patterns here.
Safe Harbor Agreements Arizona
Safe Harbor Agreement for Topminnow and Pupfish can be seen at: (you will need adobe acrobat to view it online) http://www.setonresourcecenter.com/Register/2004/Mar/25/15362A.pdf OR- or contact:
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