ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



A project of this magnitude would not have been possible without the assistance of 

 many individuals and organizations. Jay F. Watson, our Project Officer, was paramount 

 in managing this study and provided us with encouragement and advice throughout the 

 project. Bill Rodstrom's able field assistance during the 1979 field season played a prin- 

 cipal role in the completion of this project. He was responsible for data collection for much 

 of the north coast. Margaret Stewart's help during the 1980 field season and with the pre- 

 paration of this report were invaluable. 



Gary Rankel of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Arcata, California graciously 

 provided us with office space, a congenial work atmosphere, and access to a copy machine. 

 Paul Springer, also of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Arcata, kindly provided us 

 with space to store our equipment. The following organizations loaned us equipment 

 for which we are grateful: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Anchorage, Alaska and Sacra- 

 mento, California; San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge; and Washington State 

 Fisheries Cooperative Unit. 



Data from many investigators were incorporated into this report. Without their co- 

 operation this project would not have been possible. We thank all of those people listed 

 on the title page who were involved in these recent collections of data. Special thanks in 

 this regard go to Dave Ainley, Dan Anderson, Jonathan Atwood, Bob Boekelheide, Ken 

 Briggs, Alan Craig, Elizabeth Copper, Frank Gress, Stan Harris, George Hunt, Jr., Ron Jurek, 

 Paul Kelly, Tim Osborne, and Dan Varoujean. 



We thank the many individuals of the California State Park System and the California 

 Department of Fish and Game for assistance in many ways. John Warrick, of the Pacific 

 Gas and Electric Company, arranged access to the Diablo Nuclear Power Plant and Jim 

 Chambers assisted us with our surveys there and made his field notes available to us. Several 

 aerial surveys were done with the cooperation of the U.S. Coast Guard. We would par- 

 ticularly like to acknowledge Lt. Sutter Fox of the Arcata Air Station for arranging logis- 

 tic support. 



Jim Bartonek, Ron LeValley, Paul Springer, and Mark Strong reviewed an early draft 

 of this report and their suggestions were most helpful. Dave Ainley, Dan Anderson, George 

 Hunt and Stan Harris reviewed the final draft and added many useful refinements. 



We are much indebted to Linda Parkinson and Margaret Stewart who donated several 

 of the drawings which adorn the pages of this catalog. Allen Brooks' drawing of the Mar- 

 bled Murrelet was provided courtesy of The Murrelet, A Journal of Northwestern Orni- 

 thology and Mammalogy. Help with maps was provided by Richard Huxley and Larraine 

 Strong. Dave Van de Mark printed our photographs. Drafts of this report were typed by 

 Maria Collins and Bernadene Logan, and typesetting was done by Kathy Amyotte and 

 Jeannie Jacobsen. 



Finally, we thank the Bureau of Land Management for sponsoring this project and in 

 particular Gordon Reetz of the Pacific Outer Continental Shelf Office. 



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