This study details the development and initiation of an inventory program for amphibians, reptiles, and mammals at ALPO and JOFL.

The authors conducted an inventory of amphibians and reptiles at Gettysburg National Military Park (GETT) and Eisenhower National Historic Site (EISE) from March-November 1999 and 2000. Both parks are located in Adams County, south-central Pennsylvania. Forest, grassland, wetland, and riparian areas were sampled for presence, relative abundance, and distribution of amphibians and reptiles. They used visual-encounter surveys, coverboards, general searches, funnel traps, drift-fence arrays, pitfall buckets, turtle traps, and leaf litter bags in our inventory.

The authors conducted a long-term project (1992-1996) designed to provide a comprehensive review of vertebrates (amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals) in four national parks in the eastern United States. They field tested select protocols at Gettysburg National Military Park, Eisenhower National Historic Site, Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site, and Valley Forge National Historical Park to (1) determine the effectiveness of protocols for inventorying and monitoring terrestrial vertebrates in terms of time, labor, cost and types of data obtained and (2) predict and document the number...

This report and vitiation bibliography can be used with the Technical Report NPS/MAR/NRTR-94/058, which is entitled 'Inventorying and Monitoring Protocols of Vertebrates in national Park Areas of the Eastern United States; the Faunal Report." The two reports synthesize comprehensive information on inventorying and monitoring protocols, and ecological, biological, and legal data for vertebrates in the eastern deciduous forest.

The objectives of the Schwoebel inventory project were to document presence, relative abundance, and distribution of herpetofauna, mammals, and birds on the Schwoebel tract, and presence of woody plant species on the Schwoebel tract.