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2 LIST OF PERSONS AND SOURCES CONSULTED Airnav.com. Airport Information. Accessed December American Ornithologists Union The A.O.U. Checklist of North American Birds. Seventh edition. American Ornithologists Union. Washington D.C. Baker, Robert J., L. C. Bradley, R. D. Bradley, J. W. Dragoo, M. D. Engstrom, R. S. Hoffmann, C. A. Jones, F. Reid, D. W. Rice, and C. Jones Revised Checklist of North American Mammals North of Mexico. Occasional Papers, The Museum of Texas Tech University, 229:1-23. Bechard, M. J., and J. K. Schmutz Ferruginous Hawk (Buteo regalis). In The Birds of North America, No. 172 (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Birds of North America, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. Belk, D. and M. Fugate Two new Branchinecta (Crustacea: Anostraca) from the southwestern United States. The Southwestern Naturalist 45: CalEPA. Climate Action Team Report. March _FINAL_CAT_REPORT.PDF California Environmental Protection Agency, Air Resources Board. Air Resources Board Aerometric Data Analysis and Management System. Accessed, January California Air Resources Board. Data and Statistics. Accessed July California Air Resources Board The California Almanac of Emissions and Air Quality Edition. California Department of Conservation. California Geological Survey - SMARA Mineral Land Classification. Accessed September California Department of Conservation, Division of Land Resource Protection. Farmland Mapping and Monitoring Program. California Farmland Conversion Report California Department of Finance website. Accessed August-October California Department of Fish and Game. 2008a. California Natural Diversity Database (CNDDB) RareFind 3, Version California Department of Fish and Game. Sacramento, CA. 1

3 California Department of Fish and Game. 2008b. California Natural Diversity Data Base (CNDDB). Special Animals List. California Department of Fish and Game, Wildlife and Habitat Data Analysis Branch. Sacramento, CA. California Department of Fish and Game. 2008c. California Natural Diversity Data Base (CNDDB). Special Vascular Plants, Bryophytes, and Lichens List. Quarterly publication. California Department of Toxic Substances Control. Accessed September California Department of Toxic Substances Control. Site Cleanup. Accessed December California Energy Commission. Inventory of California Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks 1990 to a /CEC SF.PDF. California Environmental Protection Agency, Air Resources Board. Area Designations Maps/State and National. Accessed January, California Environmental Protection Agency. Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board. Accessed August California Integrated Waste Management Board. SWIS. Accessed December California Native Plant Society Online Inventory of Rare and Endangered Vascular Plants of California. CNPS, Sacramento, CA. CH2MHill. Merced Water Supply Plan Update. Final Status Report. Prepared for City of Merced, Merced Irrigation District, University of California, Merced. September City of Merced and MID. Merced Water Supply Plan (1995). City of Merced. Merced Fire Department. Accessed May City of Merced, Merced Police Department. Accessed May City of Merced, Merced Vision 2015 General Plan, April

4 Clark, W. S. and B. Wheeler Hawks of North America, Second Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. 316 pp. Crother, Brian I. (ed.) (2001). Scientific and Standard English Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of North America North of Mexico, with Comments Regarding Confidence in Our Understanding. SSAR Herpetological Circular 29. iii + 82 pp. Crother, Brian I. (ed.) Scientific and Standard English Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of North America North of Mexico: Update. Herpetological Review 34: Department of Conservation. Farmland Mapping and Monitoring Program website. Accessed October, Dunk, J. R White-tailed Kite (Elanus leucurus). In The Birds of North America, No. 178 (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, and The American Ornithologists Union, Washington, D.C. ECO:LOGIC. City of Merced Sewer Master Plan (January 2007). England, A. S., M. J. Bechard, and C. S. Houston Swainson s Hawk (Buteo swainsoni). In The Birds of North America, No. 265 (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, and The American Ornithologists Union, Washington, D.C. Eriksen, C. H. and D. Belk Fairy shrimps of California's puddles, pools, and playas. Mad River Press, Eureka, California. Federal Emergency Management Agency Map Service Center website. Accessed August logid=10001&langid=-1 Hall, E.R., The Mammals of North America. 2 nd edition. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1181 pp. Haug, E. A., B. A. Millsap, and M. S. Martell Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia). In The Birds of North America, No. 61 (A. Poole and F. Gill, Eds.). The Birds of North America, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. Hickman, J. (ed.) The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California. University of California Press. Berkeley, CA pp. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis, Summary for Policy Makers. February pdf 3

5 Ivester and Telesetsky..Global Warming Reaches California Regulatory Agencies and Courts And You. California Land Use and Policy Reporter February 2007 at p.119. Jennings, Mark R. and M. P. Hayes Amphibian and Reptile Species of Special Concern in California. California Department of Fish and Game, Sacramento, CA 260 pp. Kaufmann, K Lives of North American Birds. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA. 675 pp. Knopf, Fritz L Mountain Plover (Charadrius montanus). In The Birds of North America, No. 211 (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Birds of North America, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. LAFCo of Merced County website. Accessed September, MacWhirter, R. B., and K. L. Bildstein Northern Harrier (Circus cyaneus). In The Birds of North America, No. 210 (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, and The American Ornithologists Union, Washington, D.C. Merced County Airport Land Use Commission. Merced County Airport Land Use Compatibility Plan (Merced County, 1999). Merced County Association of Governments. Merced County Regional Housing Needs Allocation Plan. August 21, Merced County. Hazardous Waste Management Plan (HWMP). Merced County LAFCo. Accessed December Merced County. Merced County Fire Department. Accessed May Merced County. Merced County Sheriff Department. Accessed May Merced County. Merced County Library. Accessed May Merced County Office of Education. School Districts. Accessed May Merced County Planning Department, Merced County Year 2000 General Plan, December Merced County Transit. The Bus. Accessed May

6 Merced Irrigation District. Accessed September Michael Paoli & Associates Development Fee Justification Study Prepared for Merced Union High School District. Nelson, Joseph S., E. J. Crossman, H. Espinosa-Perez, L. T. Findley, C. R. Gilbert, R. N. Lea, and J. D. Williams Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, Sixth Ed. Special Publication 20. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, MD. Omernik, J. M Ecoregions of the conterminous United States. Map (scale 1:7,500,000). Annals of the Association of American Geographers 77(1): Pierson, E. D Western Bat Working Group. Species account for Eumops perotis californicus, Western mastiff bat. Poole, A. F., R. O. Bierregaard, and M. S. Martell Osprey (Pandion haliaetus). In The Birds of North America, No. 683 (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Birds of North America, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. Reid, F. A A Field Guide to the Mammals of North America. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA. 579 pp. San Joaquin Valley Air District. Guide for Assessing and Mitigating Air Quality Impacts San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District. Revised June Air Quality Guidelines for General Plans. Shuford, W. D. and T. Gardali (eds) California Bird Species of Special Concern. Western Field Ornithologists and California Department of Fish and Game, Sacramento, CA. 450 pp. State of California, Department of Conservation, California Geological Survey. Alquist Priolo Earthquake Fault Zones. Accessed January State of California, Department of Conservation, California Geological Survey. Seismic Hazards Mapping Act. Accessed January Stebbins, Robert C A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians, Third Ed. Houghton Mifflin Company. Boston, MA. 533 pp. United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service. Accessed December

7 United States Environmental Protection Agency. The Green Book Nonattainment Areas for Criteria Pollutants. Accessed, January U.S. Census Bureau. Accessed August-October U.S. Census Bureau. Accessed December Demographic Profile Data Search. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Pacific Bald Eagle Recovery Plan. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Portland OR. 160pp. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Endangered and threatened wildlife and plants; determination of endangered status for the Conservancy fairy shrimp, longhorn fairy shrimp, and the vernal pool tadpole shrimp; and threatened status for the vernal pool fairy shrimp. Federal Register 59: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Recovery Plan for Upland Species of the San Joaquin Valley, California. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Portland, Oregon. 319 pp. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Conservation guidelines for the Valley Elderberry Longhorn Beetle. Sacramento Fish and Wildlife Office. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Recovery Plan for Vernal Pool Ecosystems of California and Southern Oregon. Portland, Oregon. xxvi +606 pages. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Removing the Bald Eagle in the Lower 48 States From the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife; Final Rule; Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Draft Post-Delisting and Monitoring Plan for the Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) and Proposed Information Collection; Notice Federal Register: 71 (130) VIA Adventures Inc. CatTracks. Accessed May Williams, D. F A review of the population status of the Tipton kangaroo rat, Dipodomys nitratoides nitratoides. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Sacramento, CA, Final Report, 44 pp. Williams, D. F Mammalian species of special concern in California. The Resource Agency, Department of Fish and Game, Sacramento, California. 107pp. Yosef, R Loggerhead Shrike (Lanius ludovicianus). In The Birds of North America, No. 231 (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Birds of North America, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. Zeiner, D.C., W.F. Laudenslayer Jr., K.E. Mayer, and M. White (eds) California's Wildlife, Volume I, Amphibians and Reptiles. California Department of Fish and Game. Sacramento. 272 pp. 6

8 Zeiner, D.C., W.F. Laudenslayer Jr., K.E. Mayer, and M. White (eds). 1990a. California's Wildlife, Volume II, Birds. California Department of Fish and Game. Sacramento. 732 pp. Zeiner, D.C., W.F. Laudenslayer Jr., K.E. Mayer, and M. White (eds). 1990b. California's Wildlife, Volume III, Mammals. California Department of Fish and Game. Sacramento. 407 pp. 7

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