Site has lots of useful information on urban sprawl, etc.
Interactive web-based GIS viewer with various overlays for the eastern Merced County region including vernal pools, campus plan, geology, topography, etc. You can see exactly where the campus and community plan impacts pools. A.R. Fane reports on the Sierra Club's formal position opposing the Lake Yosemite site and on The Wildlife Society's letter opposing the site. The current double-edition of the California Native Plant Society's journal Fremontia is devoted to vernal pools. Available on the CNPS web site in PDF format.