N LEGEND RD ACCESSIBLE PARKING s Habitat Authority SPACE AVAILABLE ow r P WORKMAN MILL PARKING AREA AND r E a n J o s Detailed trail maps are available at each C e a r S P ACCESS PROVIDED e K C N v r trailhead and at the Habitat Authority’s r i e e web site: www.habitatauthority.org LANDS OWNED OR e k i R VE MANAGED BY THE t A SCALE: t l R HABITAT AUTHORITY i AY D Hacienda Hills 1 : 46,200 h e Sycamore Canyon LOS ANGELES COUNTY i ente (1 INCH = 3,850 FEET) W Pu Hi EEW S lls Hellman Park DEPARTMENT OF PARKS (1-3/8 INCHES = 1 MILE) r R C La CANYON RD F H nd Arroyo Pescadero AND RECREATION b RIO HONDO A fi a COMMUNITY BA ll Workman- Powder Canyon COLLEGE RUM Temple OTHER OPEN SPACE G T R ORANGE GROVE Homestead A L.A. COUNTY SCHABARUM I n L RD RIDING & HIKING TRAIL Rose Hills SEVENTH a 605 TURNBULL S Memorial Park VD DESIGNATED Rowland-Dibble 60 BL RIDING & HIKING TRAIL P AVE Museum BICYCLES NOT PERMITTED a s d ll Hacienda PO cien i M Syc n on Ha H ON DOGS NOT PERMITTED P amore Canyo Dark Cany Heights A BEVERL AZUSA VD Hellman F yon REEW Park an AY ALK BL Y C HACIENDA Pio Pico W BL ll State Historic bu VD rn COLIMA ROAD Park NOR ORANGE DR P Tu RD J U A N

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BLVD HACIENDA 5 collaboration with the National Park Service, H PACIFIC OCEAN ORANGE CO. Rivers, Trails & Conservation Assistance Program. Printed on recycled paper using soy based ink. (April 2010) Please observe the following... About the Puente Hills Landfill Stay on trails. Decades of ranching and oil Native Habitat Preservation Authority extraction have damaged these lands, which are The Puente Hills Landfill Native Habitat gradually returning to normal health. Please allow time and other natural processes to restore plant Preservation Authority (Habitat Authority) is a life and reclaim lands. Plants include poison oak joint powers agency with a Board of Directors and cactus, which may cause injury to humans. comprised of representatives from the City of Whittier, County of Los Angeles, the Sanitation Many trails were initially developed as service Districts of Los Angeles County and Hacienda roads and are not improved to accommodate Heights Improvement Association. wheelchairs or strollers. Bicycles are prohibited at Arroyo Pescadero The Habitat Authority is dedicated to the and on certain trails in Hellman Park and acquisition, restoration and management of open Hacienda Hills, but permitted elsewhere on lands space in the Puente Hills for preservation of the owned or maintained by the Habitat Authority. land in perpetuity, with the primary purpose to No smoking, fireworks, matches, or other flammable protect the biological diversity. Additionally, the items, whether fire season is current or not. agency will endeavor to provide opportunities for outdoor education and low-impact recreation. Bring your own water. Water is generally not uente available on the premises. The Habitat Authority was created in 1994 from Dogs are not permitted in Sycamore Canyon a mitigation fund generated by "tipping" fees P and Arroyo San Miguel, but are welcome collected at the Puente Hills Landfill. As of April elsewhere when leashed and restrained from 2010, more than 3,869 acres have been preserved. ill harming wildlife and visitors. Please help protect land and water resources by removing animal The Puente Hills Preserve consists of rugged H S waste dropped by your pet. topography, steep hillsides and deep canyons. Motor vehicles are not permitted. This ecosystem is connected to the Chino Hills reserve Camping is not permitted. and Santa Ana Mountains by habitat linkages P Habitat Authority lands are open to the public and corridors that allow wildlife to continue to from sunrise to sunset. move through the landscape. Access to park lands is prohibited within 48 Hikers, cyclists, bird watchers and equestrians of hours after rains and during “red flag” all ages enjoy the trails that the hills have to conditions defined by National Weather Service. offer, and enjoy spectacular views of the Pacific Wild animals may be dangerous. Children and Ocean, Catalina Island, and San Gabriel Valley Access pets should be accompanied and supervised by and Mountains. an adult at all times. Donations to the Habitat Authority can be Rocks, trees, flowers, and other objects or deducted from income taxes under Internal artifacts must not be removed or disturbed, so that Revenue Service Code Section 170. Guide others may enjoy these resources. Possession of firearms, bows and arrows, For more information, please contact: compressed air guns and other weapons is prohibited. Puente Hills Landfill Pack it in? Pack it out. Native Habitat Preservation Authority Habitat Authority lands are actively patrolled and 7702 Washington Ave. Suite C protected by law enforcement officers. Whittier, CA 90602 (562) 945-9003 24-hour ranger dispatch: Web site: www.habitatauthority.org

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Powder Canyon, Hacienda Hills, Hills, Hacienda Canyon, Powder ndard Oil. Some of of Some Oil. ndard a St and Chevron Unocal,

may find evidence of their presence. their of evidence find may

the slopes and flat grasslands of of grasslands flat and slopes the owned by corporations such as as such corporations by owned once were land

creatures by nature, but if you look carefully, you you carefully, look you if but nature, by creatures

tall coast live oaks growing along along growing oaks live coast tall another purpose: oil extraction. Large tracts of of tracts Large extraction. oil purpose: another

Puente Hills. These are all shy and secretive secretive and shy all are These Hills. Puente

Oak woodlands Oak are comprised of of comprised are land's geologic history made it valuable for for valuable it made history geologic land's

mule deer is the largest herbivore found in the the in found herbivore largest the is deer mule

difficult to develop in modern times, but the the but times, modern in develop to difficult

carnivores like the California mountain lion. The The lion. mountain California the like carnivores

access, and a lack of water made the hills hills the made water of lack a and access,

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ranchos tended by William Workman, F.P.F. F.P.F. Workman, William by tended ranchos

species include elderberry, elderberry, include species Bobcat

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California, the hills became parts of the vast vast the of parts became hills the California,

in dense thickets. Individual Individual thickets. dense in

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the Arroyo San Miguel, and Powder Canyon. Powder and Miguel, San Arroyo the is a recreation route associated with the Juan Juan the with associated route recreation a is

sage scrub in Sycamore Canyon, Hellman Park, Park, Hellman Canyon, Sycamore in scrub sage

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preserve includes splendid examples of coastal coastal of examples splendid includes preserve the eastern Puente Hills, near Brea Canyon. Canyon. Brea near Hills, Puente eastern the

Gabriel River to the Chino Hills, Santa Ana River River Ana Santa Hills, Chino the to River Gabriel

protected by state and federal regulations. The The regulations. federal and state by protected Hills. The Portola expedition passed through through passed expedition Portola The Hills.

that extends from the Whittier Narrows and San San and Narrows Whittier the from extends that San Gabriel Valley just north of the Puente Puente the of north just Valley Gabriel San and California sagebrush. This rare community is is community rare This sagebrush. California and

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varieties of insects, reptiles, birds and mammals. mammals. and birds reptiles, insects, of varieties The Spanish expeditions of Gaspar de Portola Portola de Gaspar of expeditions Spanish The fall. Plant species include purple and black black and purple include species Plant fall.

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developing a brown appearance in summer and and summer in appearance brown a developing The Age of Exploration of Age The

drought, plants go dormant and lose their leaves, leaves, their lose and dormant go plants drought,

rooted. To get through the summer summer the through get To rooted.

Powder Canyon. Powder resources, and regarded as sacred places. sacred as regarded and resources,

sun. These plants are shallow shallow are plants These sun.

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hills were revered for abundant wildlife wildlife abundant for revered were hills

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with maximum exposure to the the to exposure maximum with

for birds and other wildlife. wildlife. other and birds for villages near reliable sources of water. The The water. of sources reliable near villages CALIFORNIA

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community are commonly found on on found commonly are community Gabriel) by Spanish explorers and settlers. settlers. and explorers Spanish by Gabriel) and elderberry. These plants plants These elderberry. and

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southern California landscape. landscape. California southern were first populated by the Tongva, who came came who Tongva, the by populated first were sometimes growing amongst amongst growing sometimes

SAGEBRUSH

The Puente Hills and all surrounding lands lands surrounding all and Hills Puente The threatened community in the the in community threatened

black walnut being predominant, predominant, being walnut black

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pockets, with the California California the with pockets, The First People First The

ant woodlands Walnut exist in in exist

creek or stream), and walnut woodlands. walnut and stream), or creek

1,400 feet above sea level in La Habra Heights. Habra La in level sea above feet 1,400

woodlands, riparian vegetation (found along a a along (found vegetation riparian woodlands,

Hacienda Heights, to a summit of more than than more of summit a to Heights, Hacienda

and Arroyo San Miguel. San Arroyo and

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biologists as coastal sage scrub, chaparral, oak oak chaparral, scrub, sage coastal as biologists

approximately 400 feet in Whittier and and Whittier in feet 400 approximately

Hacienda Hills, Powder Canyon Canyon Powder Hills, Hacienda WESTERN

Flora, or plant life, consists of groups known to to known groups of consists life, plant or

The hills rise from an elevation of of elevation an from rise hills The streambeds Sycamore Canyon, Canyon, Sycamore streambeds

continuous erosion, caused by rain and wind. wind. and rain by caused erosion, continuous

species can be found along along found be can species

depend upon these plants and other animals. other and plants these upon depend

seismic forces. The hills are also shaped by by shaped also are hills The forces. seismic

arroyo willow and mulefat. These These mulefat. and willow arroyo

adapted to the environment, and animals that that animals and environment, the to adapted Whittier-Elsinore fault was pushed upward by by upward pushed was fault Whittier-Elsinore

coast live oak, western sycamore, sycamore, western oak, live coast

communities of plants which are uniquely uniquely are which plants of communities land along the north edge of the the of edge north the along land

and lush growth might include include might growth lush and

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water flows. Dense tree cover cover tree Dense flows. water

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