ACKNOUTEDGMENTS 



I thank Kirv\'in Werner and Bryce Maxell for help conducting site surveys, Martin Miller for data 

 entry, John Hinshaw for data retrieval, and Cedron Jones for mapping occurrences. Thanks also 

 to Dale Tribby (Miles City Field Office, BLM) and Jay Parks (Billings Field Office, BLM) for 

 their interest and support with this project, and their efforts to coordinate identification of survey 

 sites. Ted Nordhagen of Westby kindly acquired the Smooth Green Snake specimens. 



Financial support for the project came from a Challenge Cost-Share agreement between the 

 Bureau of Land Management and the Montana Natural Heritage Program (Montana State 

 Librar>', Natural Resources Information System and The Nature Conservancy). Funds for 

 additional survey work on National Wildlife Refiige and Waterfowl Production Area lands within 

 the Miles City District, BLM region were provided from an additional Challenge Cost-Share 

 agreement with the Montana Office of the USFWS. 



Museum records were received from; American Museum of Natural History, Academy of Natural 

 Science, Brigham Young University, California Academy of Science, Carnegie Museum, 

 University of Puget Sound Museum, Field Museum of Natural Histon*', Glacier National Park 

 Museum. Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Kansas, Los Angeles County Museum, 

 Louisiana State University Museum of Zoolog\', Museum of Comparati\e Zoology - Harvard, 

 Milwaukee Public Museum, Montana State Uni\ersity Museum, Michigan State University 

 Museum, North Carolina State Museum of Natural History, Northern Louisiana University 

 Museum, University of Colorado Museum, University of Georgia Museum of Natural History, 

 University of Idaho Museum, University of Michigan Museum, University of South Dakota, 

 United States National Museum of Natural Histor>', University of Texas - Arlington, University of 

 Texas - El Paso, and Peabody Museum - Yale Most museum data were received with the help of 

 Dr. Charles Peterson, Idaho State University, Pocatello. 



Jim Reichel. former MTN^HP Zoologist, was instrumental in organizing and conducting a series of 

 amphibian and reptile inventories across Montana, the first comprehensive coverage of the state in 

 three decades, and by far the most uniform and complete. Jim"s untimely death in 1997 prevented 

 his direct involvement in completing this portion of the overall project. This report represents one 

 of a series of regional inventories that contribute to a baseline survey of the entire state. 



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