Our collaborative project led by Dr. John A. Crawford at the National Great Rivers Research and Education Center. With Dr. Christopher A. Phillips, Andrew Kuhns, and myself as co-investigators, the project seeks to provide current information on the status of amphibian and reptile Species in Greatest Conservation Need (SGCN) using the unique bottomland and swamp habitats of southern Illinois. Our three-year project will provide land management agencies a ranking of the quality of these habitats for herpetofauna. Also, the results of the project will provide updated distributional and abundance information for herpetofauna using these unique habitats.
