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The Ten Mile State Marine Reserve Area protects key wildlife communities that reside in inland estuaries, while also providing key resting and breeding grounds areas for Pacific harbor seals. The area also protects shoreline beaches, offshore islets, surf grass and kelp beds. [ 5 ]
There are 34 Areas of Special Biological Significance (ASBS) off the coast of California. These are marine areas that "support an unusual variety of aquatic life, and often host unique individual species" that are monitored for water quality by the California State Water Resources Control Board.
Reserve lands were part of the land grant of Rancho Santa Rosa that were given to Julian Estrada by the governor of Mexico in 1841. Swiss dairymen grazed cattle on what are now reserve lands, and Chinese seaweed farmers lived here from 1900 to 1960, burning intertidal rocks in winter to encourage new sea lettuce ( Ulva sp.) growth.
University of California Natural Reserve System (24 P) Pages in category "Nature reserves in California" The following 134 pages are in this category, out of 134 total.
This is a list of California Department of Fish and Wildlife protected areas. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), through its seven regional divisions, manages 262 protected areas statewide.
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The Tupman Zoological Reserve was established in 1932 with about 175 tule elk from the Miller and Lux Ranch herd. [4] [5] The state of California took over the site in 1953. [5] [4] The Tule Elk State Natural Reserve has constructed ponds, and supplemental food is provided for the animals, [6] without which the population could not survive. [7]