Download or read book Chihuahuan Desert National Parks Reptile and Amphibian Inventory written by Dave Prival and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reasonable first step toward conserving natural resources in parks, therefore, is to simply figure out what those natural resources are. In the late 1990s, the NPS began a program to take this first step and inventory the vascular plants and vertebrates (i.e., mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians) that inhabit each park with significant natural resources.