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Acknowledgements

       We thank the personnel at all of our research and monitoring sites for providing access and assistance: Joe Reinman, Michael Keys, James Burnett, and Jeff Howland (SMNWR), Ken Litzenberger, Kathy Whaley, Steve Barlow, and Daniel Barand (LSNWR), Deb Barnard-Keinath and Karen Pacheco (HNNWR), John Robinette (Savannah Coastal Refuges complex) and Russ Webb (SNWR), Thom Lewis and Monica Harris (SVNWR), and Steve Coates and Mel Sunquist (Ordway).  We especially thank HNNWR for providing housing during our field work.

       Denise Gregoire provided invaluable assistance to our project in 2005.  We thank our volunteers and colleagues Linda and Andy Sheldon, Clint Smith, Jennifer Carr, Becca Hale, Elise Cortina, Elise Gunzburger, Matt Aresco, Kevin Enge, Steve Bennett, and Joe Mitchell for helping with field work.

       The analysis of amphibian disease at fish hatcheries was made possible by an ARMI Research Grant to C. K. Dodd, Jr. 

Southeast ARMI research and monitoring is conducted under the following permits:

• SMNWR: USFWS Special Use Permit 41640-02011
• LSNWR: USFWS Special Use Permit 41515-05-005
• Savannah Coastal Refuges complex (HNNWR and SNWR): USFWS Special Use Permit 41620-04016
• SVNWR: USFWS Special Use Permit 05-41650-4
• Ordway Preserve: OR-05-07

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