Great Plains Natural Science Society

 

The Prairie Naturalist

Date of this Version

12-2006

Document Type

Article

Citation

The Prairie Naturalist (December 2006) 38(4): 207-212

Comments

United States government work

Abstract

There have been almost no surveys of herpetofauna at 109 km2 Lostwood National Wildlife Refuge (LNWR) or surrounding counties in northwestern North Dakota, an area possibly undergoing significant environmental change from fossil fuel extraction and use. We used 30 m drift fences to survey amphibian and reptile species in prairie-wetland transition zones at LNWR during mid-May to early-July in 1985 to 1987, and again in 1999 and 2000. We captured only four amphibian and two reptilian species and noted one other reptilian species incidental to our survey. Several species expected to occur in the area were not detected.

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