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Calaveras Big Trees State Park; California chaparral and woodlands; California interior chaparral and woodlands; California montane chaparral and woodlands; List of California state forests; Cascades (ecoregion) Cedar hemlock douglas-fir forest; Central and Southern Cascades forests; Closed-cone conifer forest
Boggs Mountain Demonstration State Forest: 3,493 acres (14.14 km 2) Lake: Cobb: 1949 [1] Ellen Pickett State Forest: 160 acres (0.65 km 2) Trinity - [2] Jackson Demonstration State Forest: 48,652 acres (196.89 km 2) Mendocino: Fort Bragg: 1949 [3] Las Posadas State Forest: 796 acres (3.22 km 2) Napa: Angwin [2] LaTour Demonstration State Forest ...
Other coniferous trees, such as white fir, bigcone Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga macrocarpa), incense cedar, and western juniper also thrive here. Canyon live oak, California black oak, and Pacific dogwood are other trees that also grow here. The forest contains an estimated 87,400 acres (354 km 2) of old growth.
Sites are often forested by trees including bald cypress (Taxodium distichum), swamp tupelo (Nyssa biflora), evergreen shrubs, and hardwoods. Slash pine ( Pinus elliottii ) is sometimes found. Characteristic shrubs include buckwheat tree ( Cliftonia monophylla ), swamp cyrilla ( Cyrilla racemiflora ), fetterbush lyonia ( Lyonia lucida ), and ...
A forest that is frequently flooded with relatively fresh water rich in minerals is referred to as a freshwater swamp forest. Since tropical freshwater swamp forests are a subset of tropical rainforests, they share a number of environmental traits with other tropical rainforest formations. [4] Beyond these shared characteristics, however, the ...
This ecoregion is dominated by redwood forest, containing the tallest and some of the oldest trees in the world. [ 22 ] The redwood forests thrive in a thin belt up to 35 miles (56 km) wide next to the coast, where the trees are kept moist by winter rains and summer fog. [ 22 ]
Eriogonum kelloggii, a species of buckwheat found only on Red Mountain near Leggett; Harmonia guggolziorum, a flowering aster found in two locations near Hopland; Limnanthes bakeri, a meadowfarm plant known in only 20 locations near Willits; Pinus contorta var. bolanderi, the Mendocino shore pine tree, a variety of the more widespread lodgepole ...
The mixed evergreen forests of the Klamath Mountains-Siskiyou Mountains occur above 300 meters (1000 ft) elevation, and are of four main types. Douglas-fir forests are found on gentle slopes, north-facing slopes, ridges with deep soil, and river terraces with deep sediments, usually underlain with sedimentary rocks.