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The San Joaquin River National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area of along the San Joaquin River in the northern San Joaquin Valley, California. It is within San Joaquin County and Stanislaus County. It protects more than 7,000 acres (28 km 2) of riparian woodlands, wetlands, and grasslands and hosts a diversity of native wildlife.
The ecoregion covers 13,300 square kilometres (5,100 sq mi), extending from just north of the California-Oregon border south, to southern Monterey County. The ecoregion rarely extends more than 65 km inland from the coast, narrower in the southernmost parts of the ecoregion.
The San Joaquin River National Wildlife Refuge is located in Stanislaus County and San Joaquin County. It encompasses over 7,000 acres (28 km 2 ) of riparian woodlands, wetlands and grasslands that host a diversity of wildlife native to California's Central Valley.
The northern end of the California Coast Ranges overlap the southern end of the Klamath Mountains for approximately 80 miles (130 km) on the west. They extend southward for more than 60 miles (97 km) to where the coastline turns eastward along the Santa Barbara Channel, around the area of Point Conception.
Wetlands of California — including estuaries, marshes, and perennial riparian areas. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
The Bureau of Land Management’s National Landscape Conservation System (NLCS) includes over 850 federally recognized areas and in California, manages 15,500,000 acres (63,000 km 2) of public lands, nearly 15% of the state's land area. [3] The National Landscape Conservation System is composed of several types of units: national monuments ...
Riparian woodlands up to 5,000 feet (1,500 m) are dominated by western sycamore (Platanus racemosa) and various willow species such as Salix gooddingii, Salix laevigata, and Salix lasiolepis. Riparian understory contains California laurel (Umbellularia californica) and Pacific madrone (Arbutus menziesii). [5]: 393–394
Cosumnes River Riparian Woodlands 1976: Sacramento: Private, Federal, State, and County A small remnant of a rapidly-disappearing riparian woodland community type that once formed a major part of the central valley. [9] Deep Springs Marsh 1975