Assisted the Conderated Salish & Kootenai Tribes, with their Northern Leopard Frog Reintroduction Project, by collecting egg masses here on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation and relocating them to the Flathead.

Testing Amphibians for the Chytrid Fungus "Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis", a disease which is associated with mass extinctions of amphibians, and is tied to global warming. The climate linked Epidemic Hypothesis predicts amphibian declines in unusually warm years because shifts in temperature often influence disease dynamics...as temps rise, climate flucuations may cross threshholds for certain pathogens, triggering outbreaks! And more diseases are expected to become more lethal or spread more rapidly, as the Earth warms.

Conducting Field Trips with local schools,Wild Rockies Field Institute, EPA Regional Staff, and Collaborating Parties, including State and Federal Agencies. These include: Montana Fish, WIldlife & Parks, U.S. Fish & WIldlife Service, Bureau of Reclamation, Army Corps, NRCS, Graduate Students and Tribal Colleges to name a few. We show them first hand what type of species, Plant or animal, that inhabit the area.

We also Conduct Wetland Delineations on site, to see if a site is a jurisdictional wetland, to be classified as a wetland, a site has to have three indicators, Hydric Soil, Hydric Plants, and Hydrology. We follow the Army Corps of Engineers, Delineation Manual to conduct delineations.