1. Environmental Studies Area/F.A.C.T. 4. California Desert Studies Consortium Monterey Bay, Sacramento, San Francisco, San José, and 9. L.W. Schatz Demonstration Tree Farm www.csub.edu/fact/about.htm http://biology.fullerton.edu/facilities/dsc/zzyzx.html Stanislaus), with consortium undergraduate and graduate www.humboldt.edu/~treefarm students taking courses or pursuing their master of F.A.C.T. is a unique project of California State University, The Desert Studies Center, field station of the California The L.W. Schatz Demonstration Tree Farm started off as a science degrees at MLML. The lab is situated in an Bakersfield whose purpose is to promote the conservation State University, provides opportunity for individuals and generous donation to Humboldt State University from excellent location for the study of the marine world. The of wildlife through the rehabilitation of nongame species of groups to conduct research, receive instruction, and L. W. Schatz on November 12, 1987. This was the largest Monterey Submarine Canyon, the largest such feature on native animals and through educational activities. This experience the desert environment. Established in 1976 gift in the school’s history. The farm is administered by the the west coast of North America, begins within a few project emphasizes the rehabilitation of endangered or under a cooperative management agreement with the HSU Forestry Department and serves as a field experiment hundred meters of the Moss Landing harbor and the MLML protected species, particularly birds of prey. Sick or Bureau of Land Management, the Center is operated for station for forestry researchers, an outdoor classroom for research fleet. To the east of MLML is the Elkhorn Slough, injured animals are treated and retrained so they can be the CSU by the California Desert Studies Consortium, an educators, and a demonstration area for forestry extension one of the largest unspoiled estuarine wetlands off the reintroduced into their natural habitat. F.A.C.T. is licensed organization of seven southern California CSU campuses: professionals. Professors, students, private tree farmers, West Coast of the United States, and an important site for Biological Field Stations with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and the California Dominguez Hills, Fullerton, Long Beach, Los Angeles, and community members interested in specific, timber- shorebirds and fish. To the north and south are sand Department of Fish & Game as a rehabilitation and Northridge, Pomona, and San Bernardino. land-based projects will find a myriad of potential uses dunes, sandy beaches, and extensive kelp forest habitats and Marine Laboratories educational facility and is located within the Environmental available to them at the Tree Farm. along the rocky shoreline. Some of the most productive Studies Area (ESA) of the CSU Bakersfield campus. 5. Southern California Marine Institute California has some of the most richly diverse natural kelp forests and intertidal areas can be found in this www.scmi.us region. MLML also is located between two large upwelling 10. Humboldt State University Natural environments in the United States—ocean, seashore, 2. Eagle Lake Biological Field Station History Museum foothills, mountains, forests, and deserts. The spectrum The Southern California Marine Institute (SCMI) centers, which provide nutrients that stimulate an www.csuchico.edu/biol/EagleLake/eaglelake.html www.humboldt.edu/~natmus of flora, fauna, geology, and geography make the state represents a strategic alliance of 12 major universities in incredible amount of productivity but also provide a wealth an ideal field study laboratory for students, faculty, and The Eagle Lake Biological Field Station (ELFS), located 26 Southern California. Ten universities from the California of opportunities to study coastal oceanic processes. Humboldt State University Natural History Museum, through researchers to enhance their educational experience. miles northwest of Susanville in Lassen County, California, State University system representing the Ocean Studies its collections, exhibits, and programs, inspires in North is a 10-building facility on the eastern shore of Eagle Lake. Institute (Bakersfield, Channel Islands, Dominguez Hills, 7. Tucker Wildlife Sanctuary Coast residents and visitors of all ages an understanding Campuses of the California State University have taken The field station is administered by California State Fullerton, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Northridge, Pomona, www.tuckerwildlife.org and appreciation of the dynamic natural world and provides advantage of the state’s natural resources by University, Chico (CSUC) and the CSUC Foundation, with San Bernardino, and San Marcos) combined their marine a learning laboratory for Humboldt State University students. developing numerous outdoor education laboratories Tucker Wildlife Sanctuary is a 12-acre nonprofit nature support from the University of California Natural Reserve resources with those of the University of Southern and research facilities to augment on-campus preserve, located in the heart of Modjeska Canyon adjacent System and the University of California, Davis. The ELFS is California, Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies, and 11. Wright Wildlife Refuge instruction. Many of these facilities are operated in to the Cleveland National Forest. It is owned and operated open to any individual or group whose purpose is Occidental College. These marine resources include the www.humboldt.edu/~tlg2/08 by California State University, Fullerton and its College of cooperation with other organizations such as the U.S. primarily academic, and whose activities are consistent research vessels R/V Yellowfin and R/V Seawatch. Other Natural Sciences and Mathematics. In addition to serving In 1989 the estate of Ellen Wright deeded a small parcel of Forest Service, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, with the isolation and natural setting of the station. resources include scientific equipment and buildings as a research center for CSU Fullerton students, faculty, land to be used as a wildlife refuge to the Humboldt Area and the Nature Conservancy. These sites serve an (offices, laboratories, storage facilities, machine and wood and others, Tucker is open to the public to enjoy and learn Foundation. In her will, Ellen Wright envisioned an “Urban educational role as well as preserve important 3. Bidwell Environmental Institute shops) valued at over $1.3 million. The facilities and about the local wildlife and natural habitat in the Southern Wildlife Refuge” that would serve the community by ecological areas. www.csuchico.edu/bei docking space for the vessels are located on Terminal California canyon area. providing shelter and habitat for wildlife native to the Island in the heart of Los Angeles Harbor. Many sites offer residential accommodations and The purpose of the Bidwell Environmental Institute is to Eureka area, enhancing wildlife values for the surrounding extensive on-site laboratories, while other sites are 8. Center for Coastal Marine Sciences conceptually put under one roof all of California State 6. Moss Landing Marine Laboratories urban landscape and providing opportunities for wildlife simply nature at its best, with few or no man-made University, Chico activities related to the natural (CCMS) education. These principles provide the guidelines and www.mlml.calstate.edu structures. These sites lend themselves to numerous environment: reserve management, education, and www.marine.calpoly.edu objectives for the future management and administration of disciplines—anthropology, agriculture, marine science, research. The Institute approach recognizes the many Since establishment in 1966, Moss Landing Marine the Urban Wildlife Field Station. The property is managed The mission of the Center for Coastal Marine Sciences is to biology, chemistry, geography, geology, natural resource faculty and staff involved in such issues and projects and Laboratories (MLML) has grown an international under a joint agreement between the Humboldt Area promote and facilitate basic and applied interdisciplinary management, art, photography, education, and more. supports their autonomy. The Institute strives to support reputation for excellence in marine science research and Foundation, the Department of Wildlife at Humboldt State studies of coastal marine systems for the purpose of ongoing projects and facilitate communication between education, and is the second oldest marine lab on University, and the Humboldt State University Foundation. addressing environmental concerns and fostering hands- environmental projects within the university and with Monterey Bay. MLML is operated by a consortium of seven Consistent with Ellen Wright’s will, several research and on student learning through discovery and outreach. external constituencies. California State University campuses (Fresno, East Bay, education programs have been established at the refuge. 15. San Diego State University (San Francisco Bay NERR). San Francisco Bay NERR Field Stations Program promotes scientific research of these remaining wetlands Biological Field Stations http://fs.sdsu.edu/kf to better manage and successfully restore these important 9 12 habitats. and Marine Laboratories Humboldt State Since 1962 with the first field station in the network, the 10 11 2 Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve, San Diego State 19. Fairfield Osborn Preserve 1. Environmental Studies Area/F.A.C.T. 3 University has managed off-campus natural areas as living CSU Chico www.sonoma.edu/org/preserve 2. Eagle Lake Biological Field Station laboratories and outdoor classrooms. Like San Diego State campus classrooms, field stations are natural areas Fairfield Osborn Preserve was established by The Nature 3. Bidwell Environmental Institute 19 Sonoma State Sacramento State supporting the mission of the university: to provide well- Conservancy in 1972 through the generosity of William Cal Maritime 17 balanced, high-quality education for undergraduate and and Joan Roth in honor of Joan’s father, Fairfield Osborn. 4. California Desert Studies 18 San Francisco State 16 graduate students and to contribute to knowledge and the The Nature Conservancy is an international, nonprofit Consortium Cal State Stanislaus Cal State East Bay 20 solution of problems through excellence and distinction in membership organization that preserves plants, animals, 5. Southern California Marine Institute San José State 6 teaching, research, and service. and natural communities representing the diversity of life 6. Moss Landing Marine Laboratories CSU Monterey Bay Fresno State on Earth by protecting the land and waters they need to 16. Sierra Nevada Field Campus survive. The Preserve was donated to Sonoma State 7. Tucker Wildlife Sanctuary 1 www.sfsu.edu/~sierra University in 1997. The Nature Conservancy retains a Cal Poly San Luis Obispo conservation easement of the property stipulating its use 8. Center for Coastal Marine Sciences 8 The Sierra Nevada Field Campus is dedicated to promoting as an educational and research site. The Preserve is 4 an understanding and appreciation of geology and the 9. L.W. Schatz Demonstration CSU Channel Islands dedicated to protecting and restoring natural communities Tree Farm 13 ecological diversity of life through the study of the many Cal State LA 5 and to fostering ecological understanding through CSU Dominguez Hills Sierra Nevada ecosystems by means of education, 10. HSU Natural History Museum 7 education and research. Chancellor’s Office research, and applied ecology. 11. Wright Wildlife Refuge Cal State Long Beach 1514 20. BioAg Field Site Cal Poly Pomona 17. Romberg Tiburon Center (RTC) 12. Telonicher Marine Laboratory Cal State Bakersfield http://arnica.csustan.edu/Biology/resources.htm Cal State San Marcos Cal State Northridge http://rtc.sfsu.edu 13. Voorhis Ecological Preserve San Diego State Cal State San Bernardino The BioAg Field Site on the California State University, The Romberg Tiburon Center is San Francisco State Cal State Fullerton Stanislaus campus is used for the application of and 14. Coastal Sage Scrub Habitat University’s marine field station located 30 minutes north experimentation with permaculture, biointensive gardening Preserve of San Francisco on the Tiburon Peninsula. The Center techniques, and associated research studies by faculty is the only academic research facility situated on San 15. SDSU Field Stations Program 12. Telonicher Marine Laboratory Reserve burned. Baseline data were gathered after the and students. Francisco Bay, the largest estuary on the West Coast www.humboldt.edu/~marinelb 1981 fire, and studies continued after the 1989 fire. The 16. Sierra Nevada Field Campus Reserve contains four amphibian species, 12 reptiles, 100 of the United States. The Center’s mission is to perform The Humboldt State University Marine Laboratory provides 17. Romberg Tiburon Center birds, 38 mammals, 167 vascular plants, and unnumbered basic scientific research and educate and train the next a center for marine and environmental science teaching insects. A vegetation survey conducted before the 1989 fire generation of scientists. RTC scientists pursue their 18. San Francisco Bay National and research. The primary emphasis of the laboratory is was published in 1990. research in their laboratories at the Center, at field sites Estuarine Research Reserve teaching; however, student and faculty research is active. around the world, and through collaborations with 19. Fairfield Osborn Preserve Additionally, the laboratory provides public displays that 14. Coastal Sage Scrub Habitat Preserve colleagues at other universities and institutions. As an focus on interpretation of marine science and the marine http:/edweb.sdsu.edu/cab/florafauna affiliate of San Francisco State, the Center provides its 20. BioAg Field Site environment. students with graduate and undergraduate level courses as For millenia, the Southern California coast, foothills, and well as practical experience gained through research 13. Voorhis Ecological Preserve western slopes have been home to scrub and chaparral. conducted in the laboratories of RTC scientists. www.csupomona.edu/%7Ebiology/docs/voorhis.html Unlike plant and animal relatives found in the mountains and deserts, coastal sage scrub species have adapted to an The Voorhis Ecological Reserve is located in the northwest 18. San Francisco Bay National Estuarine ecosystem that rarely freezes in the winter and only part of the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Research Reserve (NERR) occasionally experiences temperatures over 90 degrees campus. It was established informally in the 1970s, and www.sfbaynerr.org Farenheit during the dry California summer. Southern formally dedicated on June 29, 1983. It is named for Jerry California’s coastline, once covered by coastal sage scrub, San Francisco Bay once supported 190,000 acres of highly Voorhis, a former congressman with a long connection to is now largely developed. Only scattered pockets remain. productive tidal marsh, nearly 90 percent of which has Cal Poly Pomona. The Reserve consists of 31 hectare of One such pocket is the Point Loma Ecological Reserve, an been destroyed or altered. In the past, these wetlands Academic Programs coastal sage scrub and a small amount of coast live oak provided essential habitat for commercially important fish 401 Golden Shore, 6th Floor area of 840 acres protected under the joint management woodland. These communities are shaped by fire, and the and crabs, filtered mud from the bay’s murky waters, and Long Beach, CA 90802-4210 of the U.S. Navy, Cabrillo National Monument, and other Reserve has burned several times. The two most significant protected the shoreline from flooding. Two of the most www.calstate.edu/acadaff/field_stations federal agencies. events were on August 21, 1981, when Box Canyon pristine wetlands left in the estuary are protected as part of burned, and July 28, 1989, when virtually the entire the San Francisco Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve