ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Special thanks go out to all those who have helped in some way or another in the formation of this website. 

We are especially grateful to the amphibian field technicians who collected data at Big Bend and Shenandoah National Parks during the 1998 field season:

1998 Amphibian Technicians at Shenandoah National Park:

Dr. Michael Crossland, Christopher Leary, Melissa Larson, Liz Raulerson, and Meghan Hagerty

1998 Amphibian Technicians at Big Bend National Park:

Kevin Bonine, Shannon Claeson, Gage Dayton, and Andre de la Reza.

We are indebted to the wonderful help from National Park Service personnel.

Shenandoah National Park:

We especially thank Jim Atkinson who helped us in all aspects of the project.  Thanks also to Tom Blount, Wendy Cass, David Demarest, Chip Harvey, Sharon Henry, Dan Hurlbert, and Shawn Spitzer.

Big Bend National Park:

We are forever in debt to Raymond Skiles who helped us in all aspects of the project.  Thanks also to Vidal Davila, Betty and Tom Alex, Bunny Larson, Steve McAllister, John Forsythe, Mark Herberger, Denise Louie, Marcos Paredes, and Mark Yuhas..    

Photographs and links have been provided by:

Big Bend National Park, Kevin E. Bonine, David Cannatella, Delaware Cooperative Extension (Making a difference), Shannon Claeson, Jeff Jundt, Robin Jung, Christopher J. Leary,  North American Amphibian Monitoring Program, USGS NARCAM website, Northwest Marine Technology, Inc., USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center,   Park Research and Intensive Monitoring of Ecosystems Network (PRIMENet),   Robert Rold, Shenandoah National Park, Tom Tyning, University of Texas (Texas Memorial Museum, Herps of Texas website), United States Geological Survey, Wayne Van Devender, and Lester Via.

Kinard Boone, Robert Fernandes, Ian Thomas, and Sue Zwicker helped tremendously as website consultants and we thank them profusely.

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