Bellevue-Issaquah Area Sightings of the Western Toad

Local Western Toad Observations

We are trying to verify if the Western Toad has been spotted anywhere near the west side of Cougar Mountain Regional Wildland. There is a housing development planned here that will detrimentally affect local wetland / riparian habitats that would help support this toad, particularly during any breeding period. This w be the last development in this area that will impact habitats needed by this toad.

CAN YOU PLEASE TELL ME ROUGHLY WHERE YOUR SIGHTING OCCURRED?!

Unfortunately, all observations for vulnerable species are obscured by iNaturalist and I can't see where the observations actually occurred. I don't need an exact location, an approximate one should do.

Below is an image of the obscured area on iNaturalist that I am trying to pin down the actual locations of the observations shown here (in an obscured are we don't know the actual location of the sighting, only that this occurred within this box, as included with one of the Western Toad sightings listed below:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/127891202

I will update the list below as input comes in. Thanks.

USERS WITH WESTERN TOAD SIGHTINGS IN LOCAL OBSCURATION BOX
@afeiler -- Sep 2022 (Obs 1)
@afeiler -- Aug 2022 (Obs 2)
@brendatorres -- Jul 2022
@naturallyken -- Jul 2022
@dvornikova -- Jun 2022
@davemont -- May 2022 ----> LOCATED: South slope of Squak Mtn (1140', 47.4936, -122.0491)
@leahparr -- Jul 2021
@aruf -- Jun 2021 (Obs 1) ----> LOCATED: South slope of Squak Mtn (1400', 47.4981, -122.0548)
@aruf -- Jun 2021 (Obs 2) ----> LOCATED: South slope of Squak Mtn (1800', 47.4995, -122.0468)
@jack156 -- May 2021 (Obs 1)
@jack156 -- May 2021 (Obs 2)
@lara_hakam -- Apr 2021
@daval -- Jun 2020 ----> LOCATED: South slope of Squak Mtn (875', 47.4915, -122.0551)
@jack156 -- May 2020 (Obs 3)
@laurah55 -- Jun 2019
@jerryzhu -- Mar 2016 ----> LOCATED: East slope of Squak Mtn (not far from PooPoo Point)
@tranger0 -- Aug 2008

NOTE: I tried to create a project to help define all these observations. This would require a custom place with a custom boundary. It seems places can no longer be identified with custom boundaries, and projects require a minimum of 50 observations to begin. These issues make use of projects/places impractical for the Western Toad in the Bellevue/Issaquah obscuration box.

Publicado el 26 de febrero de 2023 a las 04:59 PM por natureguy