DO FROGS AND SALAMANDERS

GET YOU OUT OF BED AT NIGHT?

ARE YOU AND YOUR FAMILY FEELING ADVENTUROUS?

The Community Wetlands Group is a coalition of students, teachers, families, and community members dedicated to finding, documenting, and conserving amphibian-breeding sites in the tri-state area of Vermont, New York, and Massachusetts.

AMPHIBIAN SEEKERS AND WETLAND EXPLORERS WANTED!

SPRING PEEPER CONTEST! Predict or hear the first spring peeper of the season and win a free lunch! Contact Peeper Contest with your prediction.

Our WINTER KICK-OFF MEETING was a fine success! Thanks for attending! A big thanks to Betsy Colburn who gave an extremely informative and spanning-the-ages appropriate talk to get us off on the right foot.

If you couldn't make it but still want to participate, you can do it!

1. Find a wetland near your home to explore.

2. Go to your site in the day to check it out and become familiar with it. Be sure to have landowner permission and to be safe!

3. Sign up with our yahoo listserv:

tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Community_Wetlands_Group/

4. Download the data sheets from the yahoo group site

5. Register in the Data section of communitywetlandsgroup.org

6. Gear up for the migration season! On the first rainy nights in late march and early april, those frogs and salamanders will be moving en masse!

7. Report your observations to the group using the listserv.

8. Post your observations in the Data section of this site.