• Source: Blue Oak Ranch Reserve

      • The Blue Oak Ranch Reserve, a unit of the University of California Natural Reserve System, is an ecological reserve and biological field station in Santa Clara County, California. It is located on 3,260 acres (13.2 km2) in the Diablo Range, northwest of Mount Hamilton, at 1,500 ft (460 m) elevation.
      The land, part of the 19th century Mexican land grant of Rancho Cañada de Pala, was donated to the University of California on December 1, 2007 by the Blue Oak Ranch Trust, an anonymous benefactor.
      Overnight accommodations for academic researchers and educational groups may be made by permission only.


      Flora


      Flora of Blue Oak Ranch Reserve includes:

      purple needle grass (Nassella pulchra)
      barley (Hordeum)
      bluegrass (Poa spp.)
      three-awn (Aristida spp.)
      melic (Melica sspspp
      wildrye (Elymus and Leymus spp.)
      Invasive introduced species
      yellow starthistle (Centaurea solstitialis)
      medusahead grass (Taeniatherum caput-medusae)
      Italian thistle (Carduus pycnocephalus)
      tocalote (Centaurea melitensis)
      Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense)
      bull thistle (Cirsium vulgare)
      Plant communities
      valley oak woodland
      black oak woodland
      coast live oak woodland
      riparian forest
      chamise chaparral
      Diablan sage scrub
      non-native annual grassland
      wildflower field
      native perennial grassland


      Fauna


      Fauna of Blue Oak Ranch Reserve includes:

      Western toad
      Pacific tree frog
      Pacific chorus frog
      red-legged frog
      California newt
      California tiger salamander
      Western pond turtle
      red-winged blackbird
      pied-billed grebe
      Canada goose
      American coot
      wood duck
      Invasive fish
      sunfish
      largemouth bass
      mosquitofish


      See also


      Quercus douglasii — Blue oak
      California oak woodlands — a plant community within the ranch
      California interior chaparral and woodlands — the plant community that the ranch is within
      California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion — ecoregion of the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub Biome, that the ranch is within
      List of California native plants
      Restoration ecology


      References




      External links


      Blue Oak Ranch Reserve official site
      Blue Oak Reserve: University of California Natural Reserve System

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