Allegheny Mountain dusky salamander COSEWIC assessment and status report: chapter 14

Acknowledgements

David Green provided helpful comments in writing this report. Anne Yagi, Rob Tervo, and Devin Mills were responsible for catching the Niagara Gorge salamanders and suspecting they weren’t D. fuscus. I also thank Wayne Weller, Michele Steigerwald, and Ross MacCulloch for collecting information to correct the 1989 identification of the Royal Ontario Museum to D. ochrophaeus and to confirm the identity of the Canadian Museum of Nature voucher as D. fuscus. Editing feedback from Jacques Jutras, Donald McAlpine, Don Rivard, Pat Gregory, Daniel Banville, Allen Woodliffe, Peter Davis, Mike Oldham, Elsa Gagnon, Ron Brooks, S. Hecnar, Cindy Paszkowski, Ron Russell, Scott Gillingwater, and Wayne Weller on an earlier version of this report was much appreciated.

Funding for the preparation of this status report was provided by the Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment Canada.


Authorities Consulted

Achuff, Peter – Species Assessment Biologist, Ecological Integrity Branch, Parks Canada, Waterton Park, Alberta.

Bonin, Joel – Director of Conservation, Nature Conservancy of Canada, Montreal, Quebec.

Branchaud, Alain – Species at Risk Recovery Biologist, Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment Canada, Montréal, Quebec.

Breisch, Alvin – Nongame Species Unit Biologist, NYSDEC (New York State Department of Environmental Conservation), Albany, New York, U.S.A.

Goulet, Gloria – COSEWIC Secretariat ATK Coordinator, Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.

Green, David – Professor (Chair of the Allegheny Mountain Dusky National Recovery Team), Redpath Museum, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec.

Jutras, Jacques – Wildlife Biologist, Coordonnateur herpétofaune, Ministère des ressources natutrelles et de la faune du Québec (MRNF), Québec.

Lickers, Henry – Mohawk Council of Akwesasne, Department of the Environment, Cornwall, Ontario.

Oldham, Mike – Botanist/Herpetologist, Ontario Natural Heritage Information Centre, Ministry of Natural Resources, Peterborough, Ontario

Picard, Karine – Biologist, Direction de la conservation de l’environment, Environnement Canada, Sainte Foy, Québec.

Ritchie, Robert – Parks Naturalist, Niagara Parks, Niagara Falls, Ontario.

Tervo, Rob – Intern Biologist, OMNR (Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources), Niagara Area Office, Niagara, Ontario.

Tuininga, Ken – Environmental Officer, Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment Canada, Downsview, Ontario.

Weller, Wayne – Sr. Environment Specialist, Ontario Power Generation Inc., Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario.

Yagi, Anne - Management Biologist, OMNR (Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources), Niagara Area Offices, Niagara, Ontario.


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