Natural Reserve System Natural Reserve System UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA university of california 1111 Franklin St. The UC Natural Reserve System provides a Oakland, CA 94607-5200 ucnrs.org library of ecosystems throughout California. Reserves offer outdoor laboratories to field scientists, classrooms without walls for students, and nature’s inspiration to all. Founded in 1965 to provide a network of wildland sites available for scientific study, the NRS has grown to include more than 40 locations encompassing more than 756,000 acres across the state. The NRS is the world’s largest university- Reserves are listed by managing campus operated system of natural reserves; no Berkeley Los Angeles San Diego LOBSANG WANGDU other network of field sites can match its 1 Angelo Coast Range Reserve 17 Stunt Ranch Santa Monica 27 Dawson Los Monos size, scope, and ecological diversity. 2 Blue Oak Ranch Reserve Mountains Reserve Canyon Reserve 3 Chickering American River 18 White Mountain Research Center 28 Elliott Chaparral Reserve Reserve Merced 29 Kendall-Frost Mission Bay 4 Hastings Natural History Marsh Reserve 19 Merced Vernal Pools and Reservation 30 Scripps Coastal Reserve Grassland Reserve 5 Jenny Pygmy Forest Reserve 20 Yosemite Field Station Santa Barbara 6 Point Reyes Field Station 31 Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve 7 Sagehen Creek Field Station Riverside 32 Coal Oil Point Natural Reserve 21 Box Springs Reserve Davis 33 Kenneth S. Norris Rancho 22 Boyd Deep Canyon Marino Reserve 8 Bodega Marine Reserve Desert Research Center 34 Santa Cruz Island Reserve 9 Jepson Prairie Reserve 23 Emerson Oaks Reserve 35 Sedgwick Reserve 10 Lassen Field Station 24 James San Jacinto 36 Sierra Nevada Aquatic 11 McLaughlin Natural Reserve Mountains Reserve Research Laboratory 12 Quail Ridge Reserve 25 Motte Rimrock Reserve 37 Valentine Camp 13 Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve 26 Sweeney Granite Mountains Santa Cruz Desert Research Center Irvine 38 Año Nuevo Island Reserve 14 Burns Piñon Ridge Reserve 39 Fort Ord Natural Reserve 40 Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve 15 San Joaquin Marsh Reserve PEGGY L. FIEDLER KATHLEEN M. WONG KATHLEEN 16 Steele/Burnand Anza-Borrego 41 Younger Lagoon Reserve Desert Research Center Natural Reserve System Sagehen Creek Field Station UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Located on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada, Sagehen Creek Field Station encompasses conifer forests, rock scree UC Berkeley Reserves slopes, and a fen watered by its namesake stream. Black bear, rare Lahontan trout, and pine Angelo Coast Range Reserve marten are just a few of the species found in this montane Rugged and steep, Angelo Coast ecosystem. Range Reserve protects the pristine watershed of the South Fork Eel River. One of the largest tracts of old-growth WOODCOCK CHRISTOPHER Douglas-fir in California shades the • river’s edge. Flying squirrels, deer, • river otter, and steelhead trout abound • in its forests, meadows, and streams. • Chickering American River Reserve • UC Berkeley From the thin soils of Jenny Pygmy Forest • Chickering American River Perched atop the oldest Reserve grow conifers, and highest of five wave- • aspen groves, and subalpine cut coastal terraces, Jenny meadows. Pika pile grasses Pygmy Forest features to dry among the fell fields, century-old trees that while petroglyph panels LOBSANG WANGDU resemble mere saplings. and soda water springs are Clay hardpan holds water scattered throughout the site. throughout the rainy season, MAX EISSLER leaching nutrients from the soil. The result: a community JAMES M. ANDRE JAMES of stunted vegetation and dwarfed trees. Point Reyes Field Station Blue Oak Ranch Reserve Blue Oak Ranch Reserve, Point Reyes Field Station Hastings Natural History Reservation on the western slopes of Mount Hamilton, puts the 111 square miles of Tucked into the foothills of is cloaked with oak ecosystems at Point Reyes upper Carmel Valley, Hastings woodland, oak savanna, National Seashore within Natural History Reservation stands of chaparral, easy reach of scientists and features native perennial and fields of wildflowers. students. Tule elk, spotted grasslands, oak savanna, and Western pond turtles, owls, Ohlone archeological chaparral spread across three California tiger sites, redwood forests, dune- stream-lined valleys. Since salamanders, and flocks backed beaches, wetlands, 1939, scientists have collected of migrating songbirds and extensive grasslands detailed records on oak find abundant food and are just a few of the natural woodland ecology, including wonders found within this shelter on these high NPS groundbreaking studies into WOODCOCK CHRISTOPHER peaks and canyons of expansive national park. acorn woodpecker society. LOBSANG WANGDU the Diablo Range..