Drought Interagency Coordinating Group November 28 2018 Arizona Game and Fish Department Areas of Drought Impact Water Hauling Amphibians and Reptiles Disease Outbreak in Deer Low Water in Irrigation Reservoirs ID: 798670
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Arizona Game and Fish Department
Drought Interagency Coordinating GroupNovember 28, 2018
Slide2Arizona Game and Fish Department Areas of Drought ImpactWater Hauling
Amphibians and ReptilesDisease Outbreak in Deer
Low Water in Irrigation Reservoirs
Slide3Arizona Game and Fish Department Areas of Drought Impact
Water HaulingKingman Region - 23,000 gallonsYuma Region – 400,000 gallons
Ongoing drought requiring re-design
of water catchments to hold water for longer periods of time
Slide4Arizona Game and Fish Department Areas of Drought ImpactAmphibians and ReptilesArizona Toads, Chiricahua Leopard Frogs, Sonoran Tiger Salamanders
Live in streams, ponds and stock tanksWater body drying before metamorphosis
Observed loss
of eggs and tadpolesComplete annual cohort mortality
Loss of breeding habitat due to dryingSmall streams and tanks never fill with waterReduced number of breeding sites
Slide5Disease Outbreak in Deer
Drought has likely played a role in the epizootic hemorrhagic disease outbreak in deer this year.
deer in the Prescott area
suffering
from epizootic hemorrhagic diseaseArizona Game and Fish Department
Areas of Drought Impact
Slide6Arizona Game and Fish Department Areas of ImpactLow Water in Irrigation Reservoirs
Scott Reservoir – fish kill due to low waterCarnero Lake – June 2018 first reported summer fish kill due to low water
Numerous lakes with increased abundance and time of algal blooms