Amphibian Restoration - High Mountain Lakes [ds103]

Projects are targeted at removing non-native trout species in order to maintain and/or improve habitat for mountain yellow-legged frog populations. The purpose of the lentic water body data is to capture spatial water features occurring on the Sierra Nevada landscape for reference to biological surveys. KNOWN CAVEATS OF THE RESTORATION DATA: 1) Daily counts of fish removed at a site were done in the field, however, it is certain that some fish were not counted. This is either human error or due to fish falling out of gill nets prior to being counted by DFW crews. KNOWN CAVEATS OF THE LENTIC WATER BODY DATA: 1) Lakes were digitized manually and may have small errors in their location. 2) Over 11% of surveyed lentic waterbodies were discovered by crews while in the field. Although only a small minority of waterbodies in this shapefile have not been surveyed, it is surely an underestimate of total lentic waterbodies in the state.