Bullfrog by Dan Olson
Bullfrog by Dan Olson

Are you interested in becoming a volunteer frog call surveyor? If so, the Champaign County Forest Preserve District and the Urbana Park District are looking for you. We need your help monitoring frog calls on District lands.

We will have training to become Frog Call Surveyors on:

Tue. February 24th, 2009

From 6:30 to 8:30 pm
(Classroom training)
And
Wed. March 4th, 2009
From 6:30 to 8:30 pm
(Field Training)

Participants must attend both days in order to be certified to do call surveys. If you can not make both days please do not register as space is limited.

If you are already a frog call monitor, this is a great refresher!

Training is at the Salt Fork Center (formerly the Outdoor Recreation center) in the Homer Lake Forest Preserve in Champaign County. For detailed directions visit www.ccfpd.org.

The commitment we need from our volunteers includes:

  • At least two training sessions per year (one classroom, one in the field).
  • A minimum of 10 hours of call surveys in the field per year.
  • Timely reports from the field.

Other good stuff to know

  • Most of the surveying will be done in the spring and early summer.
  • Surveying time is flexible to your schedule.
  • Evening work is necessary (that is when the frogs are at their best).
  • No experience is necessary to become a surveyor.
  • Volunteer and training time counts towards Master Naturalist hours.
  • This is real data that the Districts will use for future management decisions.

Space is limited so please RSVP to dolson@ccfpd.org by Friday Feb. 20th. Please include “frog call” in the title line. We hope to see you there.