Bill Merkle, a wildlife ecologist for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, notes that mission blues are closely tied to
the coastal grassland habitat, which used to be well - distributed throughout the Bay Area.
Not exact matches
Work with private landowners, universities, and state and federal agencies to promote effective conservation practices for
grassland sites,
coastal barrier beaches, and other high - priority
habitats.
The historical distribution of the species probably encompassed much of the
coastal scrub /
grassland habitat of the northern San Francisco peninsula and Marin County.
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 foxes occur in all
habitats on the islands, including valley and foothill
grasslands,
coastal sage scrub, sand dunes, island chaparral,
coastal oak and pine forests, and marshes.
Habitats ranging from
coastal bluffs to
grasslands have been rehabilitated with the plants grown at this nursery.
Furthermore, mankind was living in every conceivable
habitat, including forest, jungle, alpine, desert, marsh,
grasslands,
coastal, and arctic.
There just may not be anywhere left for the Dunlin's preferred
habitat of wet
coastal grasslands along the shores of the Arctic Ocean.