Natural Reserve System Natural Reserve System UNIVERSITY OF 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 other network of field sites can match its 1 Angelo Coast Range Reserve 17 Stunt Ranch Santa Monica 27 Dawson Los Monos LOBSANG WANGDU size, scope, and ecological diversity. 2 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 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 Desert Research Center 34 Reserve 9 Jepson Prairie Reserve 23 Emerson Oaks Reserve 35 10 Lassen Field Station 24 James San Jacinto 36 Sierra Nevada Aquatic 11 McLaughlin Natural Reserve Mountains Reserve Research Laboratory 12 25 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 Natural Reserve 15 San Joaquin Marsh Reserve 40 Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve PEGGY L. FIEDLER 16 Steele/Burnand Anza-Borrego 41 M. WONG KATHLEEN Desert Research Center Natural Reserve System UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center

UC Riverside Reserves Sandy washes rise into alluvial bajadas and fractured granitic canyons at Sweeney Granite Box Springs Reserve Mountains Desert Research Center. Attributes include Adjacent to UC Riverside, Native American archeological Box Springs Reserve sites, ridges dominated by lies at a transitional piñon-juniper woodland and zone between coastal sagebrush, and open desert sage scrub and chamise rich in yucca and chaparral. Freshwater cacti. Sacramento Mountains seeps and an intermittent Reserve, its satellite site, is rich stream water this steep SUSAN GEE RUMSEY in teddy bear cholla. granitic slope.

PEGGY L. FIEDLER James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve Motte Rimrock Reserve On the steep western flank of Black Mountain, • James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve hosts UC Riverside habitats ranging from mixed conifer, hardwood, The boulder-strewn ••• plateau of Motte Rimrock • • and riparian forest to montane chaparral. Winter Reserve features inland snows and the streams of Hall Canyon add to mixed the site’s ecological diversity. Its satellite reserve, with chaparral, coastal- Oasis de los Osos, overlooks the desert from the desert grassland, and northern face of Mount San Jacinto. Here, Lambs riparian thickets. Native Creek cuts through riparian woodland harboring American pictograph stream orchids, the Laguna Mountain springsnail, panels, seasonal springs, and a plunge pool.

and the endangered JENNIFER GEE California gnatcatcher are among reserve highlights. CHRISTOPHER WOODCOCK Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center Emerson Oaks Reserve Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center protects a cross-section of Emerson Oaks Reserve Coachella Valley habitats. Tributaries stands at the intersection of descend from montane forest into four major climate zones— piñon-juniper woodland and chaparral, mountain, desert, coast, and then plunge into a Colorado Desert interior valley. Oak woodlands canyon dotted with cholla and barrel and coastal sage scrub grow cactus. Endangered peninsular on gentle lower slopes, while bighorn sheep are found here higher elevations support alongside greater roadrunners and dense stands of chaparral. Coachella Valley fringe-toed lizards. LOBSANG WANGDU CHRISTOPHER WOODCOCK