Research
Giant garter snake
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A tale of two valleys: Endangered species policy and the fate of the giant gartersnake (.pdf)
July 2021 – U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center
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Intrinsic Prey Preference and Selection of the Giant Gartersnake: A Threatened Predator in a Nonnative Prey-Dominated Community (.pdf)
June 2020 – Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management
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Giant Gartersnakes (Thamnophis gigas) Exploit Abundant Nonnative Prey While Maintaining Their Appetite for Native Anurans (.pdf)
February 2020 – Herpetologica
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Conservation reliance of a threatened snake on rice agriculture (.pdf)
May 2019 – Global Ecology and Conservation
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Integrating growth and capture–mark–recapture models reveals size-dependent survival in an elusive species (.pdf)
August 2018 – Ecosphere
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Distribution of the Giant gartersnake (Thamnophis gigas) in the Volta Area of the San Joaquin Valley (.pdf)
December 2017 – Eric C. Hansen
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Giant gartersnake (Thamnophis gigas) Environmental DNA and trapping surveys at the Natomas Basin Conservancy’s Cummings Tract, Sacramento County, CA (.pdf)
December 2017 – Eric C. Hansen
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Giant gartersnake (Thamnophis gigas) Surveys on the Cosumnes River Ecological Reserve: Sacramento County, California – 2017 Monitoring Report (.pdf)
October 2017 – Eric C. Hansen
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Recovery Plan for the Giant Garter Snake (Thamnophis gigas) (.pdf)
September 2017 – U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
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An Evaluation of the Efficacy of Using Environmental DNA (eDNA) to Detect Giant Gartersnakes (Thamnophis gigas) (.pdf)
September 2017 – U.S. Geological Survey
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Relations between Environmental Attributes and Contemporary Occupancy of Threatened Giant gartersnakes (.pdf)
April 2017 – Journal of Herpetology, 51(2):274-283.
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Estimates of Survival Probability from Two Populations of Giant gartersnakes in California’s Great Central Valley (.pdf)
December 2015 – Copeia
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Defining population structure and genetics signatures of declines in the giant gartersnakes (Thamnophis gigas): implications for conserving threatened species within highly altered landscapes. (.pdf)
October 2015 – Conservation Genetics
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A Conceptual Model for Site-Level Ecology of the Giant Gartersnake (Thamnophis gigas) in the Sacramento Valley, California (.pdf)
August 2015 – U.S. Geological Survey
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Literature Review of Giant Gartersnake (Thamnophis gigas) Biology and Conservation (.pdf)
August 2015 – U.S. Geological Survey
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Thamnophis Gigas (Giant Gartersnake) Movement (.pdf)
March 2013 – Herpetological Review 44(1)
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Giant Garter Snake Monitoring Update (.pdf)
October 2012 – U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center
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Implementation of Priority 1, Priority 2, and Priority 3 Recovery Tasks for Giant Garter Snake (Thamnophis gigas) – Status and distribution of giant garter snakes at the eastern Delta’s White Slough Wildlife Area, San Joaquin County, CA (.pdf)
March 2011 – Eric C. Hansen
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Giant Garter Snake Status Report (.pdf)
February 2009 – The Natomas Basin Conservancy
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Acute Oral and Dermal Toxicity of Aquatic Herbicides and a Surfactant to Garter Snakes (.pdf)
February 2004 – California Department of Fish and Game
Swainson’s hawk
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Rapid growth of the Swainson’s Hawk population in California since 2005 (.pdf)
Brett J. Furnas, David H. Wright, Erin N. Tennant, Reagen M. O’Leary, Michael J. Kuehn, Peter H. Bloom, and Carie L. Battistone
February 2022 – American Ornithological Society
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Clinal variation in morph frequency in Swainson’s hawk across North America: no support for Gloger’s ecogeographical rule (.pdf)
Arjun Amar, Chevonne Reynolds, Julia van Velden, and Christopher W. Briggs
February 2019 – The Linnean Society of London
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Space Use by Swainson’s Hawk (Buteo swainsoni) in the Natomas Basin, California (.pdf)
April 2016 – Collabra
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Swainson’s Hawk Status Report (.pdf)
Jim Estep
November 2012 – The Natomas Basin Conservancy
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Swainson’s Hawk Status Report (.pdf)
Jim Estep
December 2010 – The Natomas Basin Conservancy
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Swainson’s Hawk Status Report (.pdf)
Jim Estep
February 2009 – The Natomas Basin Conservancy
Other Reports
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Evaluation of Wetland Hydrology in Formerly Irrigated Areas (.pdf)
July 2017 – US Army Corps of Engineers® Engineer Research and Development Center
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Trees of the Natomas Basin Conservancy (.pdf)
Sacramento Tree Foundation
June 2011 – The Natomas Basin Conservancy
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Fish Sampling on Constructed Wetland on the Natomas Basin Conservancy’s BKS Tract (.pdf)
Doug Leslie and Marin Greenwood
June 2009 – The Natomas Basin Conservancy
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Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship (MAPS) in the North Basin Reserve (.pdf)
Julia Camp and Doug Leslie
April 2008 – The Natomas Basin Conservancy