Abstract: When adults defend territories, juveniles may be excluded entirely or tolerated. When juveniles are excluded from adults' territories, individuals may disperse to establish territories of their own. In many species, that display territoriality, it is unknown whether juveniles are dispersing or not. In this study I examined differences between age-classes in dispersal and homing in red-backed salamanders ( Plethodon cinereus ). Previous studies have found that adult red-backed salamanders maintain territories, and that the species exhibits homing as adults. Individuals that have established territories often exhibit home behavior to that area. The data on dispersal behavior in this species is contradictory with small but significant genetic differences over short distances but little evidence of adult dispersal from field studies. However, it is not known whether juvenile red-backed salamanders disperse (or any other fully terrestrial amphibian) disperse, and, if so, how far. Nor is it known whether there is differential homing ability or strategy between territorial adults and juveniles that are presumed to be floaters. Through a mark and recapture study and a translocation experiment I have addressed these questions concerning of dispersal and homing in a continuous landscape within the context of age-classes.