I am the Regional Coordinator of NAAMP in our state. It is my job to connect volunteers with routes. There are 39 routes in our state which cover nearly all of it except the northern panhandle. These routes are about 15 miles long and there are 10 stops along each where a volunteer stops their car for 5 minutes and listens to the frogs and toads. The route is visited only 3 times during the spring and early summer months. Routes must be visited between specified dates referred to as sampling windows. Air temperature, sky conditions, time at each stop, and the number of frogs and toads at each site (based on a calling index described on the data sheet) are recorded onto a data sheet. The data sheet is returned to me and I enter the data into a database located on the internet.
I supply all needed materials for conducting a survey except the thermometer. I provide a cassette tape to practice listening to the calls, return envelopes for data sheets, an instruction guide of how to conduct the survey, and a window hanger to identify the volunteer as a frog and toad surveyor for the U.S. Geological Survey.
Right now, I need volunteers for Dingess (Mingo Co.), Hanover (Wyoming Co.), Prince (Fayette Co.), Jacksonburg (Wetzel Co.), Ft. Ashby and Burlington (Mineral Co.), Upper Tract and Brandywine (Pendleton Co.). There are also 2 routes available in Maryland: Boonesboro and Cumberland.
Nancy Dickson
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