How you can help…

Conservation decision-making is dependent on credible data that can be used to assess population status and trends and better understand threats to wildlife and their habitats. There are a number of ways that you can help.

• Contribute new amphibian and reptile records to the Herp Atlas project:
  http://massherpatlas.org/data_collection/index.html
• Become a volunteer monitor for the North American Amphibian Monitoring Program
  In Massachusetts: http://www.massnaamp.org/
  Elsewhere in the U.S.: http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/NAAMP/
• Document amphibian roadway crossings:
  http://linkinglandscapes.info/roads/salamander_map.html
• Freshwater turtle road crossing survey:
  http://linkinglandscapes.info/roads/volunteer_to_monitor.html
• Certify vernal pools:
  http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/dfw/nhesp/vernal_pools/vernal_pool_cert.htm
  http://www.vernalpool.org/macert_1.htm