We'd like to acknowledge the hard work of all of the volunteers who helped make the Herp Atlas Project possible. When the book is published, the names of the volunteers who contributed at least one survey card will be listed. Your name will appear in the book as it appears on the mailing label of this newsletter . If you want to make a change of any sort, please get in touch with us soon. The Herp Atlas Project is coming to an end after ten long years.
Volunteers establish ten stops along a survey route near their home.
The route is then driven during three specified periods in the spring. At each of the ten stops, volunteers listen for calling frogs and fill out a survey form indicating which species they hear and at what intensity. Training materials are provided and a tape of frog calls is available. You can also participate in the NYS Breeding Bird Atlas 2000. New York State's first Atlas of Breeding Birds was published in 1988 and it's time to begin the survey again.