Test PB Collection: FTE

by Tyson Hillard HolmesOaks ’n Folks – Volume 17, Issue 2 – August 2001Monitoring is an essential tool for successful management of hardwood rangelands. Over time, it allows landowners and managers to measure the impacts of their management activities on the condition of natural resources under their…

by David J. LewisOaks ‘n Folks – Volume 17, Issue 1 – February 2001Watershed functions include the collection, storage, and transport of water. In California’s hardwood rangeland watersheds, these functions have distinct characteristics resulting from the prevailing Mediterranean climate and vegetation. The…

by Susan Harrison and Virginia BoucherMany Californians are unaware that there exists a “state rock”. It is the lovely, slick-green rock, serpentine, which covers some 2,200 square miles throughout the state. Because of the unique chemical composition of serpentine, it often supports plant species and…

by Paul Hendrix and Thaïs WinsomeOaks ’n Folks – Volume 15, Issue 1 – March 2000California’s oak savannas are home to many unique plants and animals. To the growing list of creatures for which oak woodlands are critical habitat, we’d like to add one more-the earthworm. Yes, California has its own, native…

by Kerry HeiseOaks ’n Folks – Volume 15, Issue 1 – March 2000The 2,168 ha University of California Hopland Research and Extension Center (HREC) in southeastern Mendocino County, California, was established as a range experiment station in 1951. During the following year, a botanical survey was initiated to…

by Adina M. Merenlender, Colin N. Brooks, and Gregory A. GiustiPolicy Analysis related to the Conversion of Native Habitat to Vineyard: Sonoma County’s Vineyard Erosion and Sediment Control Ordinance as a Case StudyAbstractMany of the policy deliberations on the environmental effects of new vineyard…

by Adina M. Merenlender and Colin BrooksOaks ’n Folks – Volume 13, Issue 2 – August, 1998Many of California’s watersheds have been cleared of their tree and shrub cover, often with the goal of improving grazing conditions for livestock. Large areas of these watersheds can remain with few trees because…

by Julia CrawfordOaks ’n Folks – Volume 13, Issue 2 – August, 1998The valley oak (Quercus lobata) is one of California’s unique endemic tree species. It is distributed throughout the great Central Valley, in the coast ranges from Mendocino County south, and in the transverse mountains in southern California…

by Charles W. NelsonOaks ‘n Folks – Volume 13, Issue 1 – February, 1998The human population of the northern Sacramento Valley is forecast to more than double by the year 2040. This implies that additional land in the region will be under increasing development pressure for urban and rural residential uses…

by Adina M. Merenlender and Colin BrooksOaks ‘n Folks – Volume 12, Issue 2 – September, 1997Integrating Information at State, Regional and Local Scales: An Essential Step for Watershed Management, Restoration, and MonitoringWatersheds are landscape mosaics; therefore, watershed structure and function is…