THE ENVIRONMENTAL LEGACY OF THE UC NATURAL RESERVE SYSTEM This page intentionally left blank the environmental legacy of the uc natural reserve system
edited by peggy l. fiedler, susan gee rumsey, and kathleen m. wong
university of california press Berkeley Los Angeles London The publisher gratefully acknowledges the generous contri- bution to this book provided by the University of California Natural Reserve System.
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The environmental legacy of the UC natural reserve system / edited by Peggy L. Fiedler, Susan Gee Rumsey, and Kathleen M. Wong. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-520-27200-2 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Natural areas—California. 2. University of California Natural Reserve System—History. 3. University of California (System)—Faculty. 4. Environmental protection—California. 5. Ecology—Study and teaching— California. 6. Natural history—Study and teaching—California. I. Fiedler, Peggy Lee. II. Rumsey, Susan Gee. III. Wong, Kathleen M. (Kathleen Michelle) QH76.5.C2E59 2013 333.73'1609794—dc23 2012014651
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Cover image: South Fork Eel River, Angelo Coast Range Reserve. Photo by Christopher Woodcock. For Kenneth S. Norris, Mildred E. Mathias, Wilbur W. Mayhew, and the NRS community of managers, students, and scholars, past, present, and future This page intentionally left blank In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
JOHN MUIR, letter dated Salt Lake, July 1877 Northern California OREGON 1 Heath and Marjorie Angelo Coast Range Reserve 2 Hans Jenny Pygmy Forest Reserve 3 Sagehen Creek Field Station 4 Donald and Sylvia McLaughlin Natural Reserve 5 Quail Ridge Reserve 6 Chickering American River Reserve 7 Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve Eureka 8 Bodega Marine Reserve 9 Jepson Prairie Reserve Central California 10 Blue Oak Ranch Reserve 11 Año Nuevo Island Reserve 12 Younger Lagoon Reserve 13 Sierra Nevada Research Station: Yosemite Field Station 1 14 Valentine Eastern Sierra Reserve: Valentine Camp 15 Valentine Eastern Sierra Reserve: Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory 16 White Mountain Research Center 2 17 Fort Ord Natural Reserve 18 Frances Simes Hastings Natural History Reservation 19 Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve 20 Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino Reserve 3 21 Sedgwick Reserve 22 Coal Oil Point Natural Reserve 4 Truckee 23 Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve 5 6 24 Santa Cruz Island Reserve 7 Sacramento Southern California 25 Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve 8 26 Box Springs Reserve 9 27 Burns Piñon Ridge Reserve 28 Jack and Marilyn Sweeney Granite Mountains San Francisco Desert Research Center 29 San Joaquin Marsh Reserve 30 Motte Rimrock Reserve 31 James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve 32 Philip L. Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center 10 33 Emerson Oaks Reserve 11 13 34 Steele/Burnand Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center 12 14 35 Dawson Los Monos Canyon Reserve 15 36 Scripps Coastal Reserve 37 Elliott Chaparral Reserve 16 17 38 Kendall-Frost Mission Bay Marsh Reserve
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24 25 28 Los Angeles 26 27 Natural Reserve System 29 30 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 31 33 32 ARIZONA 35 34 N 36 37 San Diego 0 50 100 miles 38 0 100 kilometers MEXICO