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James San |
Contact Information
Michael Hamilton
UC James Reserve
P.O. Box 1775
(54445 North Circle Drive)
Idyllwild, CA 92549
Phone: 909-659-3811
director@jamesreserve.edu |
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Location
Riverside County, 9 mi N of
Idyllwild on State Highway 243; 50 mi E. of UCR.
Map Quest |
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Facilities
Trailfinder Lodge Laboratory-dormitory w/
accommodations for 35 (kitchen, dining/
meeting room, 6 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms);
tent campground (for 10); campfire circle;
outdoor BBQs; GIS lab, workshop,
herbarium, fauna collections; weather station;
trail system. Overnight fee required. |
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Databases
ArcView and Arc/Info GIS coverages for
most of San Jacinto and Santa Rosa Ranges;
relational database of species lists, research
projects, monitoring records, permanent
vegetation plot data; aerial photography and
photomonitoring records since the 1940s. |
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Personnel
On-site reserve director; reserve steward. |
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Size
12 ha (29 acres); additional montane and
desert sites within 50 miles of reserve. |
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Elevation
Reserve: 1,623-1,692 m (5,325-5,550 ft)
Black Mountain: 2,369 m (7,772 ft) |
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Average Precipitation
January: 4.41 inches to
August: .96 inches
Year’s total: 26.21 inches |
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Average Temperatures
Jan: -2°C (28°F) -12.2°C (54°F)
Aug: 10.5°C (51°F) -28.8°C (84°F) |
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 Transect
Articles
specific to James |
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 Mathias
Grant Research
specific to James |
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Site Spec Sheet (PDF) |
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Jacinto Mountains Reserve |
Established in 1966 |
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James Website
complete
reserve database, GIS, virtual guided
tour of facilities, ecosystems & site users. |
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The James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve is located on an alluvial bench
situated at the lower end of Hall Canyon, a steep, western flank of Black
Mountain. The reserve hosts a wide variety of plant communities: Sierra mixedconifer
riparian forest, oak woodlands, montane chaparral, alder-willow-cedar
riparian forest, and dry meadows. Habitats include mixed conifer and hardwood
forest, montane chaparral, montane riparian forest, rapidly flowing mountain
stream with manmade reservoir (Lake Fulmor) immediately downstream. The
entire watershed is protected for research and study by the U.S. Forest Service.
There are records of 259 species of vascular plants, 35 bryophytes, 6 amphibians,
18 reptiles, 125 birds (60 percent nesting), 35 mammals, and ~1,000 invertebrates.
Operating as a satellite to the James Reserve, the Oasis de los Osos Reserve is located
at the west end of the Coachella Valley, north of Palm Springs, and encompasses
65 hectares (160 acres) situated on a steep elevational gradient near the base of the
north-facing escarpment of Mount San Jacinto. A perennial stream, Lambs Creek,
runs through the site, supporting on of the very few riparian woodlands in the
Colorado Desert. Oasis de los Osos is protected by The Nature Conservancy (TNC). |
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Field courses:
Extensive teaching use of
the site by university-level courses in
biology, botany, animal tracking, earth
philosophy, zoology, ecology, others.
Public outreach
Local community
welcomed for tours and courses on site;
Riverside County K-12 students visit
for daylong and overnight field trips;
Idyllwild community can use GIS for
fire prevention and planning.
Photo Gallery |
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 Selected Research
• Forest-stewardship database and multimedia
geographic information system
(GIS): Comprises multiple-scale
remote-sensing inventories of land use,
plant communities, species observations,
digitized photo-monitoring
images of the San Jacinto Range.
• Long-term monitoring: Extensive data
sets collected from seasonal bird banding/
nest box; mark/recapture of
herpetofauna; surveys of vernal pools,
rare plants, California spotted owls,
declining mountain yellow-legged frogs;
dendrochronology-climate reconstruction
studies; continuous recording of
weather variables.
Special Research of National Significance
• Science and Technology Center (STC): Center for Embedded Networked Sensing .."wireless embedded networked sensing systems developed by CENS provide essential infrastructure for NSF-funded ecological observatories..." (detailed description...)
• North American Carbon Program Determining California’s Carbon Budget (detailed description...)
• Physiological, Demographic, Competitive and Biogeochemical
Controls on the Response of
California’s Ecosystems to Environmental Change (detailed description...) |
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