the Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture

“ Promoting concern for amphibian health is a multifaceted task that requires educating many different stakeholders with varying land-use perspectives. Olson is helping to integrate the perspectives of disease ecologists in the field and disease diagnosticians in the laboratory with land managers who decide which, if any, mitigations to implement. ”

“ Although Olson has since found breeding toads to observe at Three Creeks and Todd Lake, a breeched lava tube in the lake now causes it to drain annually by July. She says toads are no longer able to survive there. But all is not lost.
Overall, toad breeding populations in the Cascade Range seem to be faring fine, despite climate change reducing the snowpack. There is only an issue if early-summer lake levels subside rapidly, leaving the eggs high and dry. Olson says she once observed a million toad eggs lost when laid in very shallow water during a drought year. ”