What are primary constituent elements for the California red-legged frog?
A. The primary constituent elements for this species are aquatic and upland areas where suitable breeding and nonbreeding habitat is interspersed throughout the landscape and is interconnected by unfragmented dispersal habitat. To be considered to have the primary constituent elements an area must include two or more suitable breeding locations, a permanent water source, associated uplands surrounding these water bodies up to 300 feet from the water’s edge, all within 1.25 miles of one another and connected by barrier-free dispersal habitat that is at least 300 feet wide.
