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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 1998. Draft recovery plan for gabbro soil plants of the central Sierra Nevada foothills. Portland, OR.

Vankat, J. L., and J. Major. 1978. Vegetation changes in Sequoia National Park, California. Journal of Biogeography. (to come)

Van Wagner, Thomas J. 1996. Selected Life-History and Ecological Aspects of a Population of Foothill Yellow-Legged Frogs (Rana boylii) from Clear Creek, Nevada County, California.

Van Wagtendonk, J. W. 1993. Spatial patterns of lightning strikes and fires in Yosemite Park. In: Proceedings of the 12th conference on fire and forest meteorology. Jekyll Island, GA.

Verner, J. and A. S. Boss. 1980. California wildlife and their habitats: western Sierra Nevada. Gen. Tech Report. PSW-37. Pacific Southwest Range Exp. Station, U.S. Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, Berkeley, CA.

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Verner, J. and K. L. Purcell. 1988. Subalpine Conifer. A Guide to Wildlife Habitats of California. California Department of Forestry. Sacramento, CA.

Weatherspoon, C. P. 1996. Fire-Silviculture Relationships in Sierra Forests. In Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project: Final Report to Congress, vol. II, chap. 44, Davis: University of California, Centers for Water and Wildland Resources.

Weaver, T. and D. Dale. 1974. Pinus albicaulis in central Montana: Environment, vegetation and production. American Midland Naturalist. 92(1):222-230.

Wheeler, N. C. and W. B. Critchfield. 1985. The distribution and botanical characteristics of lodgepole pine: biogeographical and management implications. In: Baumgartner, D. M. et.al. compilers and editors. Lodgepole pine: The species and its management: Symposium proceedings. Washington State University.

White, K. L. 1966. Structure and composition of foothill woodland in central coastal California. Ecology 47:229-237.

Whitney, S. 1979. A Sierra Club naturalist’s guide to the Sierra Nevada. Sierra Club Books, San Francisco, CA.

Whitney, S. 1985. Western Forests. National Audubon Society Nature Guides. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. New York.

Williams, B. D. C. 1997. Seasonal checklist of the birds of Nevada County, Sierra College Natural History Museum and Sierra Foothills Audubon Society; and unpublished records and notes on Nevada County birds compiled by B. D. C. Williams.

Williams, D. F. 1986. Mammalian species of special concern in California. Wildlife Management Divison Administrative Report 86-1.

Winternitz, B.L. 1980. Birds in aspen. Workshop proceedings: management of western forests and grasslands for nongame birds. Gen. Tech. Rep. INT-86. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service.

Wood, S. H. 1979. Holocene stratigraphy and chronology of mountain meadows, Sierra Nevada, California. Earth Resources Monograph 4. USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region, Berkeley, CA.

Yoder-Williams, M. P. and V. T. Parker. 1987. Allelopathic interference in the seedbed of Pinus jeffreyi in the Sierra Nevada, California, USA. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 17: 991-994.

Zavitovski, J. and M. Newton. 1968. The ecological importance of snowbrush,Ceanothus velutinus in the Oregon Cascades. Ecology 49:1135-1145.

Zeiler, M. 1999. Modeling Our World: The ESRI Guide to Geodatabase Design (Redlands, CA: Environmental Systems Research Institute). 199pp.

Zeiner, D. C., W .F. Laudenslayer, Jr., K. E. Mayer, and M. White. 1990. California’s wildlife: Vol. I (Reptiles and Amphibians), Vol. II (Birds), Vol. III (Mammals). California Department of Fish and Game, Sacramento, CA.

Museums and Data Bases

California Native Plant Society (CNPS-RC) Unpublished Nevada County field notes and data bases compiled by both the Sacramento office and the Redbud Chapter of the California Native Plant Society, Grass Valley, CA. [2000, 2001 records search]

CalFlora: Information on California plants for education, research, and conservation. [web application]. 2002. Berkeley, CA. Available online: http://www.calflora.org

Electronic database of California plant collections and observations from 18 herbaria and databses, including UC Berkeley Herbarium, Jepson Herbarium at UC Berkeley, California Academy of Sciences, Harvard University Herbaria, Dean W. Taylor Herbarium, San Jose State University Herbarium, U.C. Davis Information Center on the Environment, California Department of Food and Agriculture, California Native Plant Society, California Department of Fish & Game, and USDA Forest Service.

California Department of Fish and Game’s Natural Diversity Data Base for Nevada County, Sacramento, CA (2001, 2002 records searches)

Garcia and Associates (GANDA). Unpublished reports and field notes in the files of Garcia and Associates Natural and Cultural Resources Consulting (GANDA), San Anselmo, CA, Nevada City, CA.

Jones & Stokes. Unpublished reports and field notes in the files of Jones & Stokes wildlife and fisheries biologists from Nevada County. Sacramento, CA.

Sierra Foothills Audubon Society, unpublished Nevada County field notes and databases, Grass Valley, CA (2001 records search)

Tahoe National Forest wildlife and fisheries files, Nevada City, CA (2001, 2002 record searches by U.S. Forest Service personnel)

University of California, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Berkeley, CA (2001 records search)

University of California, Wildlife Museum, Davis, CA (2001 records search)

University of Nevada, Vertebrate Museum, Reno, CA (2002 records search)

Personal Communications

Chainey, M. 2002. Nevada County wildlife biologist. Review comments on animal species lists.

Erman, N. 2002. E-mail on the status and distribution of caddisflies in Nevada County.

Lukas, D. 2002. Nevada County wildlife biologist. Review comments on animal species lists.

McCreary, D. 1999. Integrated Range Management Hardwood Program. Phone conversation about the age of blue oaks growing on serpentine.

Moorefield, J. 2001. Nevada Natural Heritage Program. Phone conversation regarding NH2020 special status plants list, rare plants, fungi and lichens in western Nevada near the Nevada County border,

Olmstead, J. 2001. Conversation with the local naturalist regarding the discovery of a stand of chamise in a remote area of the South Yuba River corridor.

Safford, H. 2002. U.C. Davis researcher. Site visit to serpentine sites around Nevada County for statewide study of serpentine diversity.

Shapiro, A.M. 2001, 2002. Program on serpentine and gabbro-endemic butterflies in Nevada County and the northern Sierra Nevada for the California Native Plant Society.

Troutwine, (to come)

U.C. Berkeley Herbarium. 2001. Phone conversation with staff regarding bryophytes and lichens in Nevada County.

VanZuuk, K. 2001, 2002. Tahoe National Forest. Phone conversations about rare plants on the Tahoe National Forest.

Williams, B. D. C. 2002. E-mails and unpublished notes on the status and distribution of birds in Nevada County.