University of California Natural Reserve System

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Bodega Marine Lab, Bodega Marine Reserve

The University of California Natural Reserve System (UCNRS) is a system of protected areas throughout California.[1] The reserves support UC's mission of teaching, research, and public service. Unlike national and state parks, they are not available for recreational uses, because they were specifically created to enable UC scientists to conduct research free from such distractions.

The system began with UC Berkeley zoology professor Joseph Grinnell. In 1937, near the end of his career, Grinnell began to work on a proposal to establish UC's first wildland field station for zoology teaching and research. He had initially looked to the U.S. national parks for research sites, but became frustrated with the National Park Service and how its other priorities often got in the way of his priorities. Grinnell became convinced that only a natural reserve owned by the university itself "would provide the permanent protection necessary for long-term teaching, research, and monitoring of California's ecosystems."[2]

Grinnell did not live long enough to see his proposal succeed. In May 1939, two weeks after Grinnell's sudden death from a heart attack, the Regents of the University of California voted to accept his proposal and created the oldest reserve in the system, Hastings Natural History Reservation.[2]

On January 22, 1965, at the suggestion of Kenneth S. Norris, the UC Board of Regents voted to formally join together Hastings and six other reserves into the Natural Land and Water Reserves System.[3] In 1970, it was renamed to the Natural Reserve System.

List of reserves

Reserve Campus Area (ha) Area (Acre) Coordinates Web Notes
Angelo Coast Range Reserve Berkeley 3,166 7,915 Template:Coord [4] On the South Fork of the Eel River.
Protected by The Nature Conservancy (TNC).
Año Nuevo Island Reserve Santa Cruz 10 25 Template:Coord [5] On Año Nuevo Island.
UC manages site within the larger Año Nuevo State Reserve, owned and operated by California State Parks.
Blue Oak Ranch Reserve Berkeley 1,319 3,260 Template:Coord [6] In the Diablo Range, northwest of Mount Hamilton.
Bodega Marine Reserve Davis 176 436 Template:Coord [7] On Bodega Bay.
Box Springs Reserve Riverside 65 160 Template:Coord [8] Adjacent to the Riverside campus.
Philip L. Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center Riverside 6,749 16,873 Template:Coord [9] In the Santa Rosa Mountains, near Palm Desert.
Burns Piñon Ridge Reserve Irvine 124 306 Template:Coord [10] In the Mojave Desert, near Joshua Tree National Park.
Campus Point State Marine Conservation Area Santa Barbara 68 170 Template:Coord [11] Adjacent to the Santa Barbara campus. Coal Oil Point seep field is offshore.
Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve Santa Barbara 93 230 Template:Coord [12] In Carpinteria.
Chickering American River Reserve Berkeley 695 1,720 Template:Coord [13] In the headwaters basin of the North Fork of the American River, Sierra Nevada.
Dawson Los Monos Canyon Reserve San Diego 93 230 Template:Coord [14] In the northwestern Laguna Mountains.
Elliott Chaparral Reserve San Diego 43 107 Template:Coord [15] At former Camp Kearny, on the Kearny Mesa.
Emerson Oaks Reserve Riverside 102 255 Template:Coord [16] In the Temecula Valley, southern Riverside County.
Protected by TNC.
Fort Ord Natural Reserve Santa Cruz 242 606 Template:Coord [17] At the former Fort Ord, near Monterey Bay.
Hans Jenny Pygmy Forest Reserve Berkeley 28 70 Template:Coord [18] Above the coast in Mendocino County.
Protected by TNC.
Hastings Natural History Reservation Berkeley 932 2,392 Template:Coord [19] In the Santa Lucia Mountains, upper Carmel Valley.
James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve Riverside 12 29 Template:Coord [20] In the San Jacinto Mountains.
Satellite site Oasis de los Osos (west end of the Coachella Valley) protected by TNC.
Jepson Prairie Reserve Davis 634 1,566 Template:Coord [21] In the Central Valley.
Protected by TNC and the Solano Land Trust.
Kendall-Frost Mission Bay Marsh Reserve San Diego 7 16 Template:Coord [22] On Mission Bay.
Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino Reserve Santa Barbara 200 500 Template:Coord [23] In the Santa Lucia Mountains, near Cambria.
Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve Santa Cruz 1,584 3,911 Template:Coord [24] In the Santa Lucia Mountains, along the Big Sur coast.
TNC involved in the protection of this site.
McLaughlin Natural Reserve Davis 2,800 7,050 Template:Coord [25] Within the Blue Ridge Berryessa Natural Area.
Merced Vernal Pools and Grassland Reserve Merced 2601 6,428 Template:Coord [26] Next to the UC Merced campus
Motte Rimrock Reserve Riverside 289 715 Template:Coord [27] In western Perris Valley, Peninsular Ranges.
Quail Ridge Reserve Davis 784 1,937 Template:Coord [28] Near the Blue Ridge Berryessa Natural Area. QuRiNet deployed here.
Sagehen Creek Field Station Berkeley 183 452 Template:Coord [29] In the Northern Sierra Nevada, north of Lake Tahoe.
Operated by the University of California under a long-term special-use permit from the U.S. Forest Service.
San Joaquin Marsh Reserve Irvine 82 202 Template:Coord [30] Upper Newport Bay.
Santa Cruz Island Reserve Santa Barbara 18,624 46,020 Template:Coord [31] Santa Cruz Island.
Protected, owned, and managed by TNC.
Scripps Coastal Reserve San Diego 342 844 Template:Coord [32] Adjacent to the UC San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Sedgwick Reserve Santa Barbara 2,358 5,896 Template:Coord [33] In the Santa Ynez Valley and the foothills of the San Rafael Mountains.
Sierra Nevada Research Station—Yosemite Field Station Merced Template:Coord [34] Yosemite National Park, Sierra Nevada.
Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve Davis 233 583 Template:Coord [35] Within the Blue Ridge Berryessa Natural Area.
Steele/Burnand Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center Irvine 248,882 615,000 Template:Coord [36] An agreement with Anza-Borrego Desert State Park and the Anza-Borrego Foundation makes the park, which is managed by California State Parks, available to field station users.
Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve Los Angeles 126 310 Template:Coord [37] In Los Angeles County, within the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area.
Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center Riverside 3,600 9,000 Template:Coord [38] In the Granite Mountains, within the Mojave National Preserve.
Valentine Eastern Sierra Reserve Santa Barbara 87 205 Template:Coord [39] In the high Sierra Nevada and the upper Owens Valley.
Includes Valentine Camp and the Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory (SNARL).
White Mountain Research Center Los Angeles 18 45 Template:Coord [40] Five research facilities ranging from the Owens Valley to the highest point of the White-Inyo Mountains east of the town of Bishop.
Younger Lagoon Reserve Santa Cruz 10 26 Template:Coord [41] The northwest edge of Monterey Bay on the west side of the city of Santa Cruz.

References

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Further reading

External links

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  1. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
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  3. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". (at p. 12.)
  4. ↑ Angelo Coast Range Reserve
  5. ↑ Año Nuevo Island Reserve
  6. ↑ Blue Oak Ranch Reserve
  7. ↑ Bodega Marine Reserve
  8. ↑ Box Springs Reserve Template:Webarchive
  9. ↑ Philip L. Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center
  10. ↑ Burns Piñon Ridge Reserve
  11. ↑ Coal Oil Point Natural Reserve
  12. ↑ Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve
  13. ↑ Chickering American River Reserve Template:Webarchive
  14. ↑ Dawson Los Monos Canyon Reserve
  15. ↑ Elliott Chaparral Reserve
  16. ↑ Emerson Oaks Reserve
  17. ↑ Fort Ord Natural Reserve
  18. ↑ Hans Jenny Pygmy Forest Reserve
  19. ↑ Hastings Natural History Reservation
  20. ↑ James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve
  21. ↑ Jepson Prairie Reserve
  22. ↑ Kendall-Frost Mission Bay Marsh Reserve
  23. ↑ Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino Reserve
  24. ↑ Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve
  25. ↑ McLaughlin Natural Reserve
  26. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  27. ↑ Motte Rimrock Reserve
  28. ↑ Quail Ridge Reserve
  29. ↑ Sagehen Creek Field Station
  30. ↑ San Joaquin Freshwater Marsh Reserve
  31. ↑ Santa Cruz Island Reserve
  32. ↑ Scripps Coastal Reserve
  33. ↑ Sedgwick Reserve
  34. ↑ Yosemite Field Station
  35. ↑ Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve
  36. ↑ Steele Burnand Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center
  37. ↑ Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve
  38. ↑ Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center
  39. ↑ Valentine Eastern Sierra Reserve
  40. ↑ White Mountain Research Center
  41. ↑ Younger Lagoon Reserve
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