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Jackson Demonstration State Forest: 48,652 acres (196.89 km 2) Mendocino: Fort Bragg: 1949 [3] Las Posadas State Forest: 796 acres (3.22 km 2) Napa: Angwin [2] LaTour Demonstration State Forest: 9,033 acres (36.56 km 2) Shasta: Redding: 1949 [4] Mount Zion Demonstration State Forest: 164 acres (0.66 km 2) Amador - 1981 [2] Mountain Home ...
Sites are often forested by trees including bald cypress (Taxodium distichum), swamp tupelo (Nyssa biflora), evergreen shrubs, and hardwoods. Slash pine ( Pinus elliottii ) is sometimes found. Characteristic shrubs include buckwheat tree ( Cliftonia monophylla ), swamp cyrilla ( Cyrilla racemiflora ), fetterbush lyonia ( Lyonia lucida ), and ...
The largest forest entirely within the state is Shasta-Trinity National Forest, at 2,209,832 acres (8,942.87 km 2), the smallest is Cleveland National Forest at 460,000 acres (1,900 km 2). The Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit is not precisely a national forest in the conventional sense. Instead the Forest Service manages the land with ...
Calaveras Big Trees State Park; California chaparral and woodlands; California interior chaparral and woodlands; California montane chaparral and woodlands; List of California state forests; Cascades (ecoregion) Cedar hemlock douglas-fir forest; Central and Southern Cascades forests; Closed-cone conifer forest
The dominant forest type in this ecoregion is the coastal redwood forest. These are the tallest forests on Earth, with individual redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) trees reaching heights of 100 metres (330 ft). These forests are generally found in areas exposed to coastal fog.
California is in the Nearctic realm. Ecoregions are listed by biome: [1] Temperate coniferous forests. Eastern Cascades forests (Eastern Cascades Slopes and Foothills)
The California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion is subdivided into three smaller ecoregions. [1] California coastal sage and chaparral ecoregion: In southern coastal California and northwestern coastal Baja California, as well as all the Channel Islands of California and Guadalupe Island.
The Channel Islands are mostly covered in coastal sage and chamise chaparral with some oak woodland including endemic and/or rare: buckwheats (Eriogonum spp.), oaks (such as island oak—Quercus tomentella), and Dudleya species restricted to these islands. [2] Bishop pine also occurs on these islands.