Guide to Inventory and Monitoring of Amphibians on Dare County Bombing Range, Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station, and Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Supplement
Abstract:
This guide is designed to assist resource managers on the Dare County Bombing Range, Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, and Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune with their inventory and monitoring programs on amphibians on their installations. It provides information on identification of larval and adult life history stages of the species most likely encountered during such programs, and it describes several methodologies that allow the accumulation of data that can be used in the future to examine trends. These methods were used for three years to obtain a baseline dataset against which future evaluations can be compared. The techniques used here will be useful on other military bases in the eastern United States. The identification guide is pertinent to eastern North Carolina, but may also be useful to resource managers in adjacent states. This guide supplements the final report to the Legacy Resource Management Program by Mitchell 2002.