Sentences with phrase «chaparral canyons»

Crystal Cove State Park is a great 3 mile stretch of coastline and inland chaparral canyons.

Crystal Cove State Park is a state park of California, United States, encompassing 3.2 miles (5.1 km) of Pacific coastline, inland chaparral canyons, and the Crystal Cove Historic District of beach houses.

As Wilcove was finishing his work, on the opposite side of the country Michael Soulé began to study how coyote decline affected the ecology of Southern California's chaparral canyons.

At the time, he was a professor at the University of California at San Diego, living in the chaparral canyons outside the city.

Not exact matches

Part of the answer lies in the relationships coming to light between creatures like the canyon coyotes and the chaparral birds.

As developers carved the canyons into suburban lots, leaving behind islands of isolated brush, Soulé was alarmed enough to investigate that theory, and he sent students to compile data on the disappearance of birds from 37 forlorn chaparral islands.

Skunks on Santa Rosa mainly being found in rocky canyon slopes, cactus patches, chaparral, coastal sage scrub, open woodland areas, and riparian habitats along streams.

On Santa Rosa Island, spotted skunks were found to be associated with rocky canyon slopes, cactus patches, chaparral, coastal sage scrub, open woodland, other scrub - grassland communities, and riparian habitat along streams.

The Bishop pine community also includes many commonly associated understory species such as chamise, coyote brush, globe lantern, toyon, smooth mouse ears, island deerweed, island monkeyflower, chaparral current, poison oak, canyon sunflower, and the rare island barberry.