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NCPN Inventory, Herpetofauna, 11 Parks

Metadata Updated: March 4, 2026

This dataset comprises a herpetofauna species inventory for 11 park units within the Northern Colorado Plateau Network: BRCA, CARE, CEBR, FOBU, GOSP, PISP, TICA, ZION, ARCH, COLM, and NABR. It provides a baseline inventory of herpetofauna with the goal of documenting 90% of species present. Another goal of the project was to assess general abundance and distribution of species present, in an attempt to identify park-specific species of special concern. In 2001 and 2002, survey methods included diurnal visual encounter surveys, nocturnal spotlight surveys, and night road driving, while in 2001 researchers conducted randomly located time-and area-constrained searches. General weather conditions, location, time, observers, habitat characteristics, and other relevant information was also collected. Representative individual reptiles and amphibians were photographed and morphometric data recorded for each photographic voucher specimen captured. Road-kills and other specimens found dead were collected and deposited at the Museum of Southwestern Biology at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Appendix 1 in the 2002 final report is a master list of reptile and amphibian species in the 11 NCPN park units surveyed in 2001 and 2002.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date January 17, 2026
Metadata Updated Date March 4, 2026

Metadata Source

Harvested from DOI NPS DCAT-US

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date January 17, 2026
Metadata Updated Date March 4, 2026
Publisher National Park Service
Maintainer
Identifier http://datainventory.doi.gov/id/dataset/NPS_DataStore_1044898
Data First Published 2003-02-01T00:00:00Z
Data Last Modified 2003-02-01T00:00:00Z
Category geospatial
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 010:24
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Harvest Source Title DOI NPS DCAT-US
Homepage URL https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/1044898
Metadata Type geospatial
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Program Code 010:118, 010:119
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 7e9e69920f7abd49e01008e261c171dc263b8cea2f7e5e25a3eb9bc291f8eb40
Source Schema Version 1.1
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Temporal 2001-05-03/2002-09-22

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