When you have completed your examination of frogs at the site, please take a few minutes to complete the site summary on page three of the survey. Fish and Wildlife Department allowing volunteers to capture frogs while conducting the 2001 survey. Hand held nets are to be used in the capture of frogs. The reason is to minimize stress and possible injury associated with hand catching. To keep site disturbance to a minimum, frog collecting at any one site should be limited to about 45 minutes.
Frogs are to be released immediately after examination.
Over the past five years, the VT Dept. of Environmental Conservation has examined over 7000 leopard frogs in the Lake Champlain Basin. Field investigations by Dept. Atlas of the Reptiles and Amphibians of Vermont As amphibian populations everywhere continue to decline, accurate information about the presence of individual species becomes more important. Records of even the most common species are still missing from many Vermont towns. Many species are present, but no one has yet reported them.