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  2. List of protected grasslands of North America - Wikipedia

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    Rochester Cemetery, Cedar County, Iowa, [22] [23] established 1830s on 13.5 acres (5.5 ha; 0.055 km 2) of hills in sand prairie-savanna grassland near the Cedar River [24] Smith Cemetery Prairie Nature Preserve, [ 10 ] Darby Township, Madison County, Ohio [ 25 ]

  3. County Line Road (Santa Clara–Stanislaus counties, California)

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    County Line Road begins at the end of the 3.6 miles of the Upper San Antonio Road. The last 1.8 miles of which is a hiking, biking, and horse trail within Henry Coe State Park. County Line Road within Henry W. Coe State Park and Orestimba Wilderness is used as a hiking, biking, and horse trail. It is 29.6 miles long within the State Park and ...

  4. Protected areas of California - Wikipedia

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    East Bay Regional Park District California Department of Water Resources The Conservation Fund - California California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection City of San Diego U.S. Army Corps of Engineers City and County of San Francisco Public Utilities Commission County of Orange. 20,758,417 14,991,556 7,600,268 1,391,104 676,763 575,354 ...

  5. Fern Canyon - Wikipedia

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    Fern Canyon, Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, California Panorama of Fern Canyon. Fern Canyon is a canyon in the Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park in Humboldt County, California, western United States. The park is managed in cooperation with other nearby redwoods state parks and Redwood National Park. It is named for the ferns growing on the ...

  6. California coastal prairie - Wikipedia

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    California's coastal prairies are the most species-rich grassland types in North America, with up to 26 species present per square meter. [1] They have been described in literature as "previously unrecognized biodiversity hotspots," and are also known to provide an array of essential services—for instance, carbon storage, water filtration, agriculture, and livestock farming. [2]

  7. Ecology of California - Wikipedia

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    The coast of California north of San Francisco contains the Northern California coastal forests (as defined by the WWF) and the southern section of the Coast Range ecoregion (as defined by the EPA). This ecoregion is dominated by redwood forest , containing the tallest and some of the oldest trees in the world.

  8. California Central Valley grasslands - Wikipedia

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    The California Central Valley grasslands is a temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands ecoregion in California's Central Valley.It a diverse ecoregion containing areas of desert grassland (at the southern end), prairie, savanna, riparian forest, marsh, several types of seasonal vernal pools, and large lakes such as now-dry Tulare Lake (which was the largest freshwater lake in the United ...

  9. Alkali Sink Ecological Reserve - Wikipedia

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    The Alkali Sink Ecological Reserve is a protected conservation area spanning approximately 930 acres in the Central Valley of California. The reserve contains a variety of habitats, such as alkali sink scrub and annual grasslands, and serves as an essential refuge for numerous migratory birds, waterfowl, and endangered species.