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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 ...
Modoc Plateau (3 C, 43 P) Pages in category "Plateaus of California" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. ... Modoc Plateau; S. Santa Rosa Plateau
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 Santa Rosa Mountains extend for approximately 30 miles (48 km) along the western side of the Coachella Valley within Riverside, San Diego, and Imperial Counties in Southern California. The range connects to the San Jacinto Mountains on its northern end, where the Pines to Palms Highway—California State Route 74, crosses them. [1]
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.
In 1917 and 1927, state game refuges were established on both the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains. In the 1960s, the state agency California Department of Fish and Game began to set aside special areas called ecological reserves to protect certain species and habitats, and there are now three reserves with 28,900 acres (117 km 2 ) of state ...
Toro Peak and the Santa Rosa Mountains come under the category of sky island mountains. Vegetation on the mountain is a mixed variety of trees: Incense Cedar , White Fir , Jeffrey Pine , Ponderosa Pine , Sugar Pine and on the highest slopes Limber Pine , which is an ice age remnant species.
Pages in category "Geography of Santa Rosa, California" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.