- Habitat destruction, alteration, and fragmentation
- Collection for the pet trade
- Road and railroad mortality
- Increased predation by mammalian predators
Conservation Efforts:
- Captive breeding
- Reintroduction programs
- Field survey and monitoring
- Protected at the state level throughout its range in the United States
- Federally protected in Canada
- CITES Appendix II
Wild Population:
- Decreasing
- Most Populations are small and thus sensitive to localized extinction
- Distribution is localized to preferred habitat
