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Hooker Oak was an extremely large valley oak tree (Quercus lobata) in Chico, California. Amateur botanist and local socialite Annie Bidwell , whose husband had founded Chico, named the tree in 1887 after English botanist and Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker .
The northern part of the preserve includes Galena Peak (9,324 feet), Wilshire Peak (8,700 feet), Birch Mountain (7,826 feet), and additional nearby peaks such as Cedar Mountain and Oak Glen Peak, which offer scenic views. [2] Los Rios Rancho is Southern California's largest apple orchard and has been in operation since 1906.
The Jurupa Oak, or Hurungna Oak, [1] [2] is a clonal colony of Quercus palmeri (Palmer's oak) trees in the Jurupa Mountains in Crestmore Heights, Riverside County, California. The colony has survived an estimated 13,000 years through clonal reproduction, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] making it one of the world's oldest living trees . [ 5 ]
Rocky Oaks park showcases various species of native oak trees and California sycamore trees, some centuries-old. It ranges in elevation from around 1,700–1,850 feet (520–560 m) in elevation. [1] Nature trails explore around the 200 acres (81 ha) of oak groves, coastal sage scrub and chaparral habitats, grasslands, and rock formations. Named ...
Cuyamaca Rancho State Park is located in the Peninsular Range, which extends from the San Jacinto Mountains north of the park, southward to the tip of Baja California.At the western edge of the most seismically active area in North America, the range is a great uplifted plateau, cut off from the Colorado Desert to the east by the Elsinore Fault Zone, where vertical movement over the last two ...
The physiography is dominated by prominent knolls, surrounding mountains, open vistas and native oak woodland. It is home to 50–60,000 oak trees, [12] and the city is characterized by its many oak trees and rolling green hills. [97] The northern parts consist of mountainous terrain in the Simi Hills, Conejo Mountains and Mount Clef Ridge.
The Forest of Nisene Marks State Park is a state park of California, United States, protecting a secondary forest in the watershed of Aptos Creek and Soquel Creek within the Santa Cruz Mountains. It is located outside Aptos, California , and contains over 40 miles (64 km) of hiking trails and fire roads through 10,223 acres (4,137 ha) of ...
Rockville Hills Regional Park is a 633-acre (~256 hectare, 2.56 square kilometer) regional park in the city of Fairfield, Solano County, California, United States. [1] The park is known for its volcanic rocks, thin topsoil, grasses, and blue oak trees. [2] There are also oak woodlands, grassland savannas, chaparral and some aquatic habitats. [3]