Newell Open Space
California's oak woodlands are a unique ecosystem providing habitat to nearly half of the state's vertebrate animals. Historically they have provided food and fiber to their human inhabitants. They are crucial to water quality protection because most of the runoff from higher elevations flows through this ecosystem and most of the state reservoirs are in the oak-woodlands. Yet they are threatened by urban encroachment and conversion to crop agriculture.
California's foothill oak-woodlands cover about 5 million acres along the coast range and in a ring around the central valley. The oak-woodlands form a transition zone between the annual grasslands that surround the agricultural central valley and the mixed coniferous forest at higher elevations.
wrangle.org/ecotype/north-american-oak-woodlands
Spotlight Your Best will feature Woodlands for the rest of August. Coming September 1st: "Transportation"
Newell Open Space
California's oak woodlands are a unique ecosystem providing habitat to nearly half of the state's vertebrate animals. Historically they have provided food and fiber to their human inhabitants. They are crucial to water quality protection because most of the runoff from higher elevations flows through this ecosystem and most of the state reservoirs are in the oak-woodlands. Yet they are threatened by urban encroachment and conversion to crop agriculture.
California's foothill oak-woodlands cover about 5 million acres along the coast range and in a ring around the central valley. The oak-woodlands form a transition zone between the annual grasslands that surround the agricultural central valley and the mixed coniferous forest at higher elevations.
wrangle.org/ecotype/north-american-oak-woodlands
Spotlight Your Best will feature Woodlands for the rest of August. Coming September 1st: "Transportation"