Sentences with phrase «oak woodland»

With regards to evaporation, the oak woodland evaporated about 380 mm of water per year and the grassland evaporated about 300 mm per year.

The net radiation balance was greater over the oak woodland than the grassland, despite the fact that both canopies received similar sums of incoming short and long wave radiation.

Fire is a natural, periodic event in the hilly, oak woodland ecosystem of Sonoma County, California.

Standard practices include maintaining a dynamic and diverse forest landscape with characteristics of young forests, openings with grasses, oak woodland and streamside vegetation.

On this walk you'll be taking in ancient western oak woodland looking for a wide range of wildlife in stunning coastal and estuarine habitats.

A cluster of Spanish Revival - style buildings comprising 87,000 s.f. of space, set on 17 acres of riparian oak woodland along Mission Creek.

With a diverse range of habitats, from oak woodland to wetland and estuaries, offering more than 200 species, beginning and experienced bird watchers will have fun trying to find their personal favorite.

It can be found in oak woodland, chaparral, and grassland, under stones and wood.

The native plant communities of Santa Cruz Island include chaparral, oak woodland, Bishop pine (Pinus muriacata) forest, grassland and coastal sage scrub.

Currently on Santa Rosa Island, a large section of island oak woodland is being restored though regeneration of eroded soil and restoration of understory native plant species.

Habitat This species breeds in coast live oak woodland or chaparral dominated by scrub oak.

The Dias Ridge Trail takes you through a myriad of habitats, from oak woodland to coast scrub and chaparral to grassland.

Redroot tincture, made from the buckbrush shrub common in the oak woodland, is used to address swelling of the lymph nodes and the spleen.

Possible Napa County Oak Woodlands Initiatives Divide Wine Industry The only thing that seemed fairly certain as of Wednesday about a proposed oak woodlands and watershed protection ballot measure was that some version will appear on the June 2018 ballot...

California vineyards are designed with the larger ecosystem in mind, preserving vernal pools, oak woodlands, and other wildlife habitats and creating nest boxes for owls, raptors and other beneficial birds.

Recognized as one of the greater Temecula Valley's natural treasures, the Plateau features unique ecosystems like ancient Engelmann oak woodlands and rare bunchgrass prairie.

Experienced and novice hikers alike can explore the Reserve and its local flora and fauna (including over 200 species of birds) throughout Engelmann oak woodlands, riparian wetlands, coastal sage scrub, bunchgrass prairie, and vernal pools.

Working in the Atlantic oak woodlands of Argyll, Kintyre and Lochaber on Scotland's west coast, researchers from the James Hutton Institute, the University of Aberdeen and Scottish Natural Heritage studied plots that had never been invaded, others covered in dense rhododendron thickets, plus a time - series of sites cleared of rhododendron at different periods between 1984 and 2014.

They found that — even 30 years after rhododendron removal — the native understorey normally found in Atlantic oak woodlands had not recovered.

PORTLAND, OREGON — Humans may be important vectors for sudden oak death, according to new research, raising concerns that the disease ravaging California's oak woodlands may be difficult to control.

Its beloved hiking grounds take hikers through chaparral, oak woodlands, riparian corridors, and redwood groves.

A hike along the Sonoma Valley floor — winding through oak woodlands, native grasslands and chaparral — trumps the dog park any day.

Dog - faced violets (or for those who speak Latin, Viola adunca) is a tiny, mat - forming perennial commonly found in meadows, oak woodlands, or other forested environments.

Soon after, the Douglas iris (Iris douglasiana) blooms in oak woodlands and meadows.

This moderate to strenuous 3.5 - mile hike from Prisoners Harbor travels through island oak woodlands and coastal sage scrub plant communities.

The route features grasslands, oak woodlands, mixed conifer, and high desert chaparral.

Redwood National Park in Northern California is home to the tallest trees on earth, along with vast prairies, oak woodlands, wild riverways, and nearly 40 miles of pristine coastline.

Foxes are found in most of these habitats on these islands, but they prefer shrubby or wooded areas such as chaparral, coastal scrub and oak woodlands.

Its vast grasslands, coastal scrub vegetation, oak woodlands, and rich coastline sustained the Chumash for millennia and they maintained a number of villages and seasonal settlements on the island.

Mixed broadleaf woodland stands, oak woodlands, and pine stands are scattered throughout on sheltered slopes and canyons, or on ridges exposed to frequent moist fogs.

The major vegetative community types on the islands include coastal dune, coastal bluff, coastal sage scrub, grasslands, chaparral, island oak woodlands, mixed hardwood woodlands, pine stands, and riparian areas.

Habitat Channel Islands slender salamanders occur in grassland, coastal sage scrub, chaparral, riparian, oak woodlands, and pine forest communities.

Traveling through the park connects you with windswept beaches, dramatic cliffs, coastal chaparral, low mountains, swaths of prairie, live oak woodlands, salt marshes, freshwater wetlands and creeks, and redwood forests.

Channel Islands slender salamanders occur in grassland, coastal sage scrub, chaparral, riparian, oak woodlands, and pine forest communities.

Coastal strand, coastal bluffs, valley and foothill grasses, coastal sage scrub, chaparral, island and oak woodlands, pine forests, southern riparian woodlands, and marsh communities are all present.

The countryside from Mildura to Broken Hill slowly changes from mallee scrub and black oak woodlands to the wide open saltbush plains.

This counterpart to the Black - billed Magpie is found only in California, roaming oak woodlands and often nesting in small colonies.

And you are definitely correct about the deciduous oak woodlands of CA and OR — Jim]

Approx. 40 acres of a park - like setting buffered in oak woodlands, creeks and surrounding meadows.

Not exact matches

The 8,300 - acre Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve protects unique ecosystems like rare oak savannah and woodlands, riparian wetlands, coastal sage scrub, chaparral, and bunchgrass prairie.

Landscape proposals include removing invasive species and restoring woodlands with young oak trees from existing plants and seed banks.

Oak Openings includes two abandoned fields, an oak savanna and 5 acres of woodland.

It could mark a new beginning for the ancient woodlands of oak and ash, birch and willow that once covered 80 per cent of the English lowlands.

Then, as the world warmed early in the Holocene epoch, about 10,000 to 12,000 years ago, the pine gave way to a dense woodland of oak, maple, and birch inhabited by smaller prey like deer and wild boar.

Within the dominant oak - hickory woodlands, one finds a diversity of habitats, from rocky glades inhabited by roadrunners and cacti to wetlands with highly mineralized groundwater — all welcoming spots for lichens to settle in myriad colors and forms.

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With the help of contractors, seven acres of French broom and cotoneaster was removed, and small acacia and eucalyptus trees were cut from the leading edge of groves to reduce the expansion into oak / bay woodland.

Oakwood Valley is home to the largest naturally occurring oak / bay woodland in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

There is much weeding and planting to be done in order to maintain and protect the oak / bay woodland at Oakwood Valley.

Cheadle's Bruntwood Park is a 100 - acre country estate of mature English oaks, woodland, and waterways just 7 kilometers from Manchester Airport and 15 kilometers from Manchester City Center.