A visual story behind efforts to reverse the severely declining population of the only alpine species of toad.
The boreal toad is Colorado’s only alpine species of toad; this high-altitude amphibian lives at 7,000 to 12,000 feet of elevation in mountain ponds and lakes. They used to thrive, but are now facing a severely declining population.
These amphibians used to thrive in numbers to the point in which they were seen in towns and on roads, but now their severely declining population has the species listed as state endangered in Colorado and New Mexico and protected in Wyoming. In 2008, the Utah Department of Wildlife Resources started an assurance colony at the Paunsaugunt Plateau. Since then, collaborators from around the U.S. joined the effort to save the species. Eggs were collected from the wild to be hatched and raised for rerelease at the following facilities: Utah’s Hogle Zoo, the Loveland Living Planet Aquarium, Denver Zoo, Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium, and the Division’s Wahweap Warmwater Fish Hatchery.
Facilities are not only helping breed and release the boreal toad, but there are community science groups that survey high-altitude mountain wetlands for boreal toad populations and check for chytrid fungus.
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