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Hollister Field Office

The Bureau of Land Management Hollister Field Office Outdoor Laboratory Archives (HOLA) provides information about scientific research completed on public lands managed by the Hollister Field Office or research completed by Hollister Field Office staff.

Scientific Illustration of a prehistoric conifer branch, image BLM & CSUMB Science Illustration

Scientific Illustration of a prehistoric Monero Conifer branch by Krista Anandakuttan of California State University, Monterey Bay for BLM

POPULATION GENETICS

Quantitative Genetics of Pigmentation Development in 2 Populations of the Common Garter Snake, Thamnophis sirtalis (Westphal and Morgan 2010)

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR

Responses of Greater Roadrunners During Attacks on Sympatric Venomous and Nonvenomous Snakes (Sherbrooke and Westphal 2006)

GEOLOGY

Outcrop Characterisation of Turbidite Reservoir Analogus Deformed by Fluidisation - Implications for Reservoir Models (Stanzione et al. 2008) ; PDF
"Outcrop Studies" web page from the University of Aberdeen - Injected Sands Group (featuring the Panoche Hills and Tumey Hills)

Resolution of Geologic Mapping Discrepancies, Tumey Hills, Western Fresno County, California (Dundas n.d.)

Mineralogy of the Victor Claim, Clear Creek Area, New Idria District, San Benito County, California (Cooper et al. n.d.)

Geology of the Jolon and Williams Hill Quadrangles Monterey County, California (USGS BUlletin 1181-Q 1965)

ENTOMOLOGY

Modelling a Historic Oil-Tank Fire Allows an Estimation of the Sensitivity of the Infrared Receptors in Pyrophilous Melanophila Beetles (Schmitz and Bousack 2012)

COASTAL MARINE BIOLOGY

Molecular phylogeny of the subfamily Amphistichinae (Teleostei Embiotocidae" reveals parallel divergent evolution of red pigmentatopn in two rapidly evolving lineages of sand-dwelling surfperch" (Westphal et al. 2011) [Abstract]
U.S National Library of Medicine (NIH) [Abstract]

BOTANY

Plants of the Highest Santa Lucia and Diablo Range Peaks, California (Griffen 1975)

ECOLOGY

Relative Performance of Native and Exotic Grass Species in Response to Amendment of Drastically Disturbed Serpentine Substrates (O'Dell and Claassen 2006)

Growth, fire history, and browsing recorded in wood rings of shrubs in a mild temparate climate (Coale et al. 2011); PDF

PALEONTOLOGY

New Records of Middle and Late Miocene Perissodactyla and Artiodactyla from the Western Border of the San Joaquin Valley, Diablo Range, Fresno County, California (Kelly and Stewart 2008)
A New Immigrant Mustelid from (Carnivora, Mammalia) from the Middle Miocene Temblor Formation of Central California (Tseng et al. 2009)

PALEOBOTANY

Moreno conifer Margeriella cretacea from fossils of the Panoche Hills region, California (Anandakuttan and BLM 2009)

ASTROBIOLOGY

Field Tests of the MOD-MOA System in the Panoche Valley, California: Successfully Analyze Amino Acids from Jarosite (2004)

ARCHEOLOGY

Archeological Investigations at CA-Fre-1333, in the White Creek Drainage, Western Fresno County, California (Breschini and Haversat 1986)

Sacred Rocks: Not for Public Consumption (Crespin n.d.)

CLIMATE CHANGE

Coccidioides Niches and Habitat Parameters in the Southwestern United States (Fisher et al. 2007)
Climate Change Poster (Bultman et al. 2007)
"Valley Fever - Determination of Geological/Ecological Occurrence Models for Coccidioides Immitis" USGS web page

Heritable Variation in Garter Snake Color Patterns in Postglacial Populations (Westphal et al. 2011)

El Nino - Southern Oscillation variability from the Late Cretaceous Marca Shale of California (Davies et al. 2012)

The Breeding Avifauna of San Benito Mountain, California: Evidence for Change Over One-Half Century (Johnson and Cicero 1985)

PALEOENVIRONMENTAL RECONSTRUCTION

Cretaceous CA: Botanical and zoological species of the Panoche Hills Region - Featuring extinct Moreno conifer, magnoliid and palms; hadrosaurs, turtle and mosasaur (Anandakuttan and BLM 2009)

WATERSHED SYSTEMS

Panoche/Silver Creek Watershed Assessment Final Report (1998)

LICHENOMETRY

Investigation of the importance of rock chemistry for saxicolous lichen communities of the New Idria serpentine mass, San Benito County, California, USA (Rajakaruna et al. 2012)

SOILS

Soil Survey of Fresno County, California, Western Part (NRCS 2006) PDF 5.7 MB

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