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Map Satellite A part of the thousand-plus-hectare Experimental Range, this Natural Area lies on the eastern boundary. Here the vegetation is an open woodland with gray pine, Pinus sabiniana, blue and interior live oaks, Quercus douglasii and Quercus wislizenii. There is a brush and annual understory which includes Ceanothus cuneatus, Arctostaphylos mariposa, and the non-natives Bromus hordeaceus, Bromus diandrus, Vulpia myuros var. hirsuta, and Erodium botrys among the more important species.
The area supports a typical Sierran foothill fauna; quail food-habit studies have been made here and there is a permanent deer-use plot in the area.
The soil is mostly Ahwahnee coarse, sandy loam, with small inclusions of Hanford and Visalia coarse, sandy loams. The underlying rock is granite of Mesozoic age.
Integrity: There has been no grazing here for 40 years. Numerous studies have been conducted in the area.
Use: Educational, research.
Ref: Sanderson, H. R. and D. A. Duncan, 1966. Publications from the San Joaquin Experimental Range 1935 - 1965. U.S.F.S. Pac. S.W. Forest & Range Exp. Station, Berkeley, Calif., 30 pp.
April 1976
Inventory of California Natural Areas
Revision © 2008 Steven Louis Hartman
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