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Stebbins |
Contact Information
Virginia L. (“Shorty”) Boucher
Reserve Manager, UCD NRS
DESP / Wickson Hall
University of California
Davis, CA 95616
Phone: 530-752-6949
Fax: 530-752-3350
vlboucher@ucdavis.edu |
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Location
Solano and Napa Counties, 20
mi west of Davis campus; 6 mi
west of Winters; .5 mi east of
Monticello Dam.
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Facilities
None; site is best suited for day use. |
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Databases
Surveys of plants, insects, and vertebrates;
see also website at ; in
summer 2001, a new handbook of the
natural history based on the website will be
available. |
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Personnel
Roving staff reserve manager; no on-site
personnel. |
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Size
233 ha (583 acres) |
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Elevation
91 to 762 m (300 to 2,500 ft) |
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Average Precipitation
52 cm (20 in) per year |
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Average Temperature
January: 8°C (46°F)
July: 28°C (82°F) |
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Site Spec Sheet (PDF) |
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Cold Canyon Reserve |
Established in 1979 |
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 The Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve, set in a steep, north-facing canyon of the
northern Coast Range, provides excellent opportunities to study plant and
animal communities of both the inner and outer Coast Ranges. Differences in slope,
exposure, and moisture regimes promote a variety of undisturbed habitats, including
valley and foothill grasslands, blue oak woodland, chamise chaparral, lower
montane chaparral, mixed riparian woodland, and intermittent foothill stream.
Year-round springs provide watering areas for many wildlife species, such as bear,
mountain lion, deer, ringtail, and turkey. All together, 108 bird species (35 nesting),
eight amphibian, eighteen reptile, 43 mammal, and more than 290 plant species
have been found at the reserve. Also available for study, adjacent protected lands
held by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and the California Department of
Fish and Game greatly expand the effective research area. The reserve is named in
honor of world-renowned plant geneticist and long-time professor at UC Davis and
Berkeley, G. Ledyard Stebbins, an avid naturalist with a strong interest in conserving
natural biotic communities. |
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Public access
The site is fully open to the public; up to 5,000 people, mostly local hikers, visit the reserve annually and explore its canyon bottoms and ridgetops. Educational outreach
The reserve is available for field trips by elementary and secondary schools.
Field courses
The site is visited by university courses in wildlife field techniques, California floristics, range science, wildlife biology, botany, plant ecology, and geology field studies.
Selected Research
• Diversity and biology of cavity-nesting bees.
• Effects of fire on native ant populations.
• Microlepidopteran host associations.
• Sources of variation in floral nectar availability in fireweeds.
• Entomological surveys.
• Studies of lyme disease.
• Post-landslide plant succession.
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