TABLE OF CONTENTS

FOREWORD
By Robert F. Holland

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
By John E. Vollmar

CONTRIBUTORS

PHOTO CREDITS

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
By John E. Vollmar

CHAPTER 2: LANDSCAPE SETTING
By John E. Vollmar

CHAPTER 3: RARE PLANTS
By John C. Dittes and Josephine L. Guardino

CHAPTER 4: VERNAL POOL LARGE BRANCHIOPODS
By Brent P. Helm and John E.Vollmar

CHAPTER 5: POND AND STREAM BREEDING AMPHIBIANS
By David M. Laabs, Mark L. Allaback and Susan G. Orloff

PHOTO INSERTS:
Rare and Unique Plants and Animals of Eastern Merced’s Vernal Pool Grasslands
Habitats and Landforms of Eastern Merced County’s Vernal Pool Grasslands

CHAPTER 6: AQUATIC REPTILES
By Susan G. Orloff

CHAPTER 7: BIRDS
By Todd R. Sloat and Edward D. Whisler

CHAPTER 8: SMALL MAMMALS
By David M. Laabs and Mark L. Allaback

CHAPTER 9: MEDIUM TO LARGE MAMMALS
By Susan G. Orloff

CHAPTER 10: BATS
By Elizabeth D. Pierson and William E. Rainey

CHAPTER 11: LIVESTOCK GRAZING AND VERNAL POOLS
By James D. Robins and John E. Vollmar

CHAPTER 12: SUMMARY
By John E. Vollmar

APPENDIX A: MAPS

RARE PLANTS

Map 3.1 - Henderson’s Bent Grass occurrences in California.
Map 3.2 - Hoover’s Calycadenia occurrences in California.
Map 3.3 - Succulent Owl’s-clover occurrences in California.
Map 3.4 - Hoover’s Spurge occurrences in California.
Map 3.5 - Beaked Clarkia occurrences in California.
Map 3.6 - Dwarf Downingia occurrences in California.
Map 3.7 - Delta Button-celery occurrences in California.
Map 3.8 - Spiny-sepaled Button-celery occurrences in California.
Map 3.9 - Bogg’s Lake Hedge-hyssop occurrences in California.
Map 3.10 - Legenere occurrences in California.
Map 3.11 - Merced Monardella occurrences in California.
Map 3.12 - Pincushion Navarretia occurrences in California.
Map 3.13 - Shining Navarretia occurrences in California.
Map 3.14 - Colusa Grass occurrences in California.
Map 3.15 - San Joaquin Valley Orcutt Grass occurrences in California.
Map 3.16 - Hairy Orcutt Grass occurrences in California.
Map 3.17 - Merced Phacelia occurrences in California.
Map 3.18 - Hartweg’s Golden Sunburst occurrences in California.
Map 3.19 - Sanford’s Sagittaria occurrences in California.
Map 3.20 - Greene’s Tuctoria occurrences in California.
Map 3.21 - Orcutt tribe grasses in the eastern Merced County regional study area
Map 3.22a - Vernal pool rare plant Succulent Owl’s-clover in the regional study area
Map 3.22b - Other vernal pool-associated rare plants in the regional study area
Map 3.23 - Clay flat-associated rare plants in the regional study area
Map 3.24 - Annual grassland-associated rare plants in the regional study area
Map 3.25 - Rock outcrops-associated rare plants in the regional study area
Map 3.26 - Riparian-associated rare plants in the regional study area

VERNAL POOL LARGE BRANCHIOPODS

Map 4.1 - Conservancy Fairy Shrimp occurrences in California.
Map 4.2 - Vernal Pool Fairy Shrimp occurrences in California.
Map 4.3 - Midvalley Fairy Shrimp occurrences in California.
Map 4.4 - Vernal Pool Tadpole Shrimp occurrences in California.
Map 4.5 - California Fairy Shrimp occurrences in California
Map 4.6 - Conservancy Fairy Shrimp occurrences in the regional study area
Map 4.7 - Vernal Pool Fairy Shrimp occurrences in the regional study area
Map 4.8 - Midvalley Fairy Shrimp occurrences in the regional study area
Map 4.9 - California Clam Shrimp occurrences in the eastern Merced County regional study area
Map 4.10 - Vernal Pool Tadpole Shrimp occurrences in the regional study area
Map 4.11 - California Fairy Shrimp occurrences in the regional study area

POND AND STREAM BREEDING AMPHIBIANS

Map 5.1 - California Tiger Salamander occurrences and WHR range in California.
Map 5.2 - Western Spadefoot occurrences and WHR range in California.
Map 5.3 - Foothill Yellow-legged Frog occurrences and WHR range in California.
Map 5.4 - California Tiger Salamander occurrences in the regional study area.
Map 5.5 - Western Spadefoot occurrences in the regional study area
Map 5.6 - Western Toad occurrences in the regional study area
Map 5.7 - Pacific Tree Frog occurrences in the regional study area
Map 5.8 - Bullfrog occurrences in the regional study area.

AQUATIC REPTILES

Map 6.1 - Western Pond Turtle occurrences and WHR range in California.
Map 6.2 - Western Pond Turtle occurrences in the regional study area

BIRDS

Map 7.1 - Bald Eagle occurrences and WHR range in California.
Map 7.2 - Cooper’s Hawk occurrences and WHR range in California.
Map 7.3 - Double-crested Cormorant rookery sites and WHR range in California.
Map 7.4 - Golden Eagle occurrences and WHR range in California.
Map 7.5 - Great Blue Heron/Great Egret rookery sites and WHR range in California
Map 7.6 - California Horned Lark occurrences and WHR range in California
Map 7.7 - Northern Harrier occurrences and WHR range in California.
Map 7.8 - Osprey occurrences and WHR range in California.
Map 7.9 - Swainson’s Hawk occurrences and WHR range in California.
Map 7.10 - Tricolored Blackbird occurrences and WHR range in California.
Map 7.11 - Western Burrowing Owl occurrences and WHR range in California.
Map 7.12 - White-tailed Kite occurrences and WHR range in California.
Map 7.13 - Yellow-breasted Chat occurrences and WHR range in California.
Map 7.14a - Special-status resident and breeding raptor species in the regional study area
Map 7.14b - Special-status resident and breeding non-raptor bird species in the regional study area
Map 7.15 - Special-status wintering bird species in the regional study area

SMALL MAMMALS

Map 8.1 - Merced Kangaroo Rat occurrences in California
Map 8.2 - San Joaquin Pocket Mouse occurrences in California
Map 8.3 - (Historic) Fresno Kangaroo Rat occurrences in California
Map 8.4 - San Joaquin Antelope Squirrel occurrences and WHR range in California.
Map 8.5 - Merced Kangaroo Rat occurrences in the regional study area
Map 8.6 - San Joaquin Pocket Mouse occurrences in the regional study area
Map 8.7 - Deer Mouse occurrences in the regional study area
Map 8.8 - Brush Mouse occurrences in the regional study area

MEDIUM TO LARGE MAMMALS

Map 9.1 - San Joaquin Kit Fox occurrences and WHR range in California.
Map 9.2 - San Joaquin Kit Fox occurrences and WHR range in northeastern San Joaquin Valley
Map 9.3 - San Joaquin Kit Fox occurrences in the regional study area

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