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The Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve was assembled in several stages; two parcels, comprising 3,100 acres (13 km 2), were purchased by The Nature Conservancy in 1984. The intervening parcels were purchased in the 1990s by the State of California , the Riverside County Regional Park and Open-Space District , [ 3 ] and the Metropolitan Water ...
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Rancho Santa Rosa was a 47,815-acre (193.50 km 2) Mexican land grant in present day Riverside County, California given in 1846 by Governor Pio Pico to Juan Moreno. [1] At the time of the US patent , Rancho Santa Rosa was a part of San Diego County .
The oldest rocks in California date back 1.8 billion years to the Proterozoic and are found in the San Gabriel Mountains, San Bernardino Mountains, and Mojave Desert.The rocks of eastern California formed a shallow continental shelf, with massive deposition of limestone during the Paleozoic, and sediments from this time are common in the Sierra Nevada, Klamath Mountains and eastern Transverse ...
Southeast of the Elsinore Mountains is the Santa Rosa Plateau, named for the Rancho Santa Rosa that once encompassed it. At the south end of the plateau there is a steep escarpment from the basalt capped mesas that line it, that descends from about 500 feet at Mesa de Burro to Sandia Creek on the east to about 1800 feet at Avenaloca Mesa to De ...
The Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument is managed by a mosaic of entities, including the Bureau of Land Management (89,500 acres (362 km 2)), US Forest Service (65,000 acres (260 km 2)), Cahuilla peoples (19,800 acres (80 km 2)), California Department of Parks and Recreation (12,900 acres (52 km 2)), other State of ...
Coastal sage scrub in the Santa Monica Mountains.Note slope effect. Coastal sage scrub on the Santa Rosa Plateau, with oak woodland in background.. Coastal sage scrub, also known as coastal scrub, CSS, or soft chaparral, is a low scrubland plant community of the California coastal sage and chaparral subecoregion, found in coastal California and northwestern coastal Baja California.
La Cresta is an unincorporated community in the Santa Rosa Plateau region in Riverside County, California, United States. It is situated west of Murrieta, north of Temecula and the San Diego County Border, and east of Orange County. It is centrally located approximately 55 miles from downtown San Diego, 65 miles from downtown Los Angeles, and ...