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October 3, 2014

Maria Ulloa Forest Plan Revision 1839 So. Newcomb Street Porterville, CA 93257 Mike Dietle Land Management Plan Revision USDA Forest Service Ecosystem Planning Staff 1323 Club Drive Vallejo, CA 94592 Sent to: [email protected]

Re: Forest Plan Revision Literature Cited re Wildlife Diversity and Conservation Baker, W.L. 2014. Historical forest structure and fire in Sierran mixed-conifer forests

reconstructed from General Land Office survey data. Ecosphere 5: Article 79 Beaty, R.M., and A.H. Taylor. 2001. Spatial and temporal variation of fire regimes in a mixed

conifer forest landscape, Southern Cascades, USA. Journal of Biogeography 28: 955–966. Bekker, M. F. and Taylor, A. H. 2001. Gradient analysis of fire regimes in montane forests of the

southern Cascade Range, Thousand Lakes Wilderness, California, USA. Plant Ecology 155: 15-28.

Bekker, M. F. and Taylor, A. H. 2010. Fire disturbance, forest structure, and stand dynamics in

montane forest of the southern Cascades, Thousand Lakes Wilderness, California, USA. Ecoscience 17: 59-72.

Beschta, R.L., J.J. Rhodes, J.B. Kauffman, R.E., Gresswell, G.W. Minshall, J.R. Karr, D.A.

Perry, E.R. Hauer and C.A. Frissell. 2004. Postfire management on forested public lands of the western United States. Conservation Biology 18:957-967.

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