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The California Department of Parks and Recreation maintains over 270 protected areas, which include almost one-third of California's scenic coastline, including coastal wetlands, estuaries, beaches, and dune systems. The state parks system covers 1.3 million acres (5,300 km 2), with over 280 miles (450 km) of coastline, 625 miles (1,006 km) of ...
San Luis National Wildlife Refuge Complex. San Mateo Creek (Southern California) Scovern Hot Springs. Seal Beach National Wildlife Refuge. Shollenberger Park. Sierra Valley. Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge. Stone Lagoon. Stone Lakes National Wildlife Refuge.
1451 [ 1 ] The Grassland Ecological Area, also known as the Grasslands Ecological Area is a designated Ramsar Site (wetland of international importance) in Central California. It covers an area of 250 square miles (650 km 2) along the San Joaquin River in California's Central Valley. The wetlands are on the Pacific Flyway, and are an important ...
Wetlands of New Hampshire (1 C, 3 P) Wetlands of New Jersey (1 C, 10 P) Wetlands of New Mexico (4 P) Wetlands of New York (state) (1 C, 20 P) Wetlands of North Carolina (2 C, 10 P) Wetlands of North Dakota (13 P)
It includes restored tidal marsh and beaches. [1] Crissy Field is a former United States Army airfield which is now part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Historically part of the Presidio of San Francisco, Crissy Field closed as an airfield after 1974. Under Army control, the site was affected by dumping of hazardous materials. [2]
The Wetlands Geodatabase and the Wetlands Mapper, as an Internet discovery portal, provide technological tools that allow the integration of large relational databases with spatial information and map-like displays. The information is made available to an array of federal, state, tribal, and local governments and the public.
California 's high mountains block most moisture from reaching the eastern parts of the state, which are home to California's desert and xeric shrub ecoregions. The low desert of southeastern California is part of the Sonoran desert ecoregion, which extends into Arizona and parts of northern Mexico. [2] California has two high deserts: the ...
Website. Merced National Wildlife Refuge. The Merced National Wildlife Refuge encompasses 10,262 acres (41.53 km 2) of wetlands, native grasslands, vernal pools, and riparian areas in California. It was established in 1951 under the Lea Act to attract wintering waterfowl from adjacent farmland where their foraging was causing crop damage.