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The Bonny Doon Ecological Reserve is a nature preserve of 552 acres (2.23 km 2) in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California, United States. The reserve protects several rare and endangered plant and animal species within an area known as the Santa Cruz Sandhills, an ancient seabed containing fossilized marine animals.
Smaller mammals that live in Lanphere Dunes include the dusky-footed woodrat, white-footed deer mouse, Pacific jumping mouse, California harvest mouse, Trowbridge shrew, Vagrant shrews, shrew moles, California voles, the rare white-footed vole and Botta's pocket gopher (Homomys bottae laticeps) are recorded.
The 367-acre (1.49 km 2) refuge encompasses several habitat types including sand dunes, pickleweed salt marsh, river lagoon, riverine habitat, and a saline pond. The refuge was established in 1974 because of its "particular value in carrying out the national migratory bird management program." [2]
Our ranch house's high windows opened onto the sagebrush hills and a bit of an ocean view. My parents, Sheila and Ford Rainey, paid less than $70,000 for it and an acre of land. The beach had its ...
The reptiles live in sand dunes and among shinnery oak, where they feed on insects and spiders and burrow into the sand for protection from extreme temperatures.
The wilderness protects habitat for a great variety of plants and animals especially on the slopes of Round Top, which is designated a special interest area. Plants include Ponderosa pine, canyon live oak as well as alpine vegetation of Whitebark pine , subalpine fir, and western juniper, with western white pine , mountain hemlock , and ...
A sand flea is a tiny relative of the crab. But are they causing you to itch or is it something else?
Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park is a 2,500 acre public regional park within the city of Lake Forest in southern Orange County, California. Whiting Ranch features riparian , oak woodland , grassland , chaparral , and coastal sage scrub environments throughout various canyons and hillscapes. [ 1 ]