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tion of the United States Geological Survey’s Patuxent Wildlife Research Center.
Closer to home a team of four biologists, designated as ‘amphibian technicians’, Chris Addison, Becky Holmes, Jennifer “Newt” Shirk, and John Whissel, can be seen nearly every morning packing up their gear at the Mountainside Market in Sperryville. Their job, until August of this year, is to develop baseline population data for the red-backed salamander and for the endangered Shenandoah salamander at 75 sites in the Shenandoah National Park.
The efforts of the Rappahannock-based crew is a component of the Terrestrial Salamander Monitoring Program, and will help to determine salamander population size and individual animal characteristics. This baseline data will be used, after
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