Doug- You are finding great places! Most folks within a hundred miles of Murieta haven't taken the time to visit there!
I liked the images, especially the one with what appears to be the skeleton of an old small oak? I"m amazed that as fragile as it looks that it is still intact! Have you been to Julian for the greatest pies in the world? My favorite was the Razzleberry Pie... -Don > Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 19:36:26 -0800 > From: [email protected] > Subject: [ENTS] California Oaks / Coast Live Oak#2 > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > > ENTS, > > here are some other pictures of coast live oaks that we saw at the Santa Rosa > Plateau Ecological Reserve near Murrieta in Riverside County. This reserve is > managed by five agencies and it is about 8,300 acres in size. It sounds like > it was quite an ordeal to get this place set aside so it wouldn't be > developed. It was well worth it. This property gives people some idea of what > this part of California once looked like...beautiful oak savanna, prairie and > chaparral. The sort of place I always had in my mind whenever I thought about > how Southern California should look when I was a child learning about the > Mediterranean climate of this region. > > The first image is a closeup of the leaves and the beautifully elegant > acorns. The acorns really are distinctive. The next three pictures show this > species within this wonderful oak savanna and the last three pictures shows > the largest tree that we saw. This big tree was near a couple old adobe > buildings. All of these trees were quite a bit taller than those I showed in > the first post on this species but they still were not that tall. The big > tree in the last three pictures had a girth of 17.3 feet, a spread of about > 103.5' and a height of only about 69 feet shooting straight up with a laser. > > Doug > > > > > -- > Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org > Send email to [email protected] > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en > To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Hotmail gives you a free,exclusive gift. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/hotmail_bl1/hotmail_bl1.aspx?ocid=PID23879::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-ww:WM_IMHM_7:092009 -- Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected]
