California State University Stanislaus, Endangered Species Recovery Program. Rabbit graphic courtesey Tristan Edgarian

New Publications

2023 Syntopy between endangered San Joaquin kit foxes and potential competitors in an urban environment.
2023 Effects of fire on kangaroo rats in the San Joaquin Desert of California.
2023 Potential for denning behavior to facilitate transmission of sarcoptic mange in endangered San Joaquin kit foxes.
2023 Spatio-temporal and transmission dynamics of sarcoptic mange in an endangered New World kit fox.
2023 Response of San Joaquin kit foxes to the Panoche Valley Solar Farm.
2023 Movements by endangered kit foxes between urban and non-urban habitats: implications for inter-population disease transfer.
2023 Case study: Cross-fostering of an endangered San Joaquin kit fox pup (Vulpes macrotis mutica).
2023 Buena Vista Lake Shrew Conservation: Locating extant populations using non-invasive survey techniques and developing genetic tools to facilitate population studies.
2022 Sarcoptic mange in urban kit foxes: potential for cross-species transmission.
2022 Updated Habitat Suitability Mapping for Riparian Brush Rabbits in the Northern San Joaquin Valley and Sacramento/San Joaquin River Delta

About ESRP

The Endangered Species Recovery Program is a cooperative research program on biodiversity conservation in central California, administered by California State University, Stanislaus.

The program was established in August 1992 at the request and with the support of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Bureau of Reclamation, under the direction of Dr. Dan Williams at CSU Stanislaus. Over the past decade, ESRP has grown into a cooperative research program working with local, State, and Federal agencies, non-governmental organizations, corporations, and private land owners.

ESRP is composed of about 10 biologists, students, and support staff, several research associates, and numerous collaborators in government and universities worldwide whose combined expertise and contributions are integral to the recovery of threatened and endangered species in Central California. ESRP biologists are based in Fresno, Turlock, Bakersfield, and the Bay Area.

Mission Statement

The Endangered Species Recovery Program's mission is to facilitate endangered species recovery and resolve conservation conflicts through scientifically based recovery planning and implementation.

Narrative

The central elements in the recovery of endangered and threatened species are: identifying the biological processes critical to achieving self-sustaining populations of jeopardized species and their ecosystems; developing sound species recovery and natural community management prescriptions; and identifying the social interests and entities that must be reconciled and work together in implementing recovery strategies. Such a recovery process necessarily implies the integration of all planning and implementation actions within a broadly inclusive public-private partnership to achieve a product that is environmentally sound, economically feasible, and socially equitable.