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MendoParks, a non-profit cooperating association of California State Parks since 1984, will introduce its updated Ecological Staircase trail guide with a guided hike at Jug Handle State Reserve this Saturday, November 11, at 10 a.m.
Looking to take care of yourself for some personal time? Our writer sought some R&R getaway spots to make a relaxing day or weekend trip.
California is home to 279 state parks and reserves. From Garrapata on the Big Sur coast, to Bodie State Park near the Sierra Nevada, here are 15 of the best.
Northern California is noted for its landscape, redwood and pygmy forests and a great ways to see them is at the Brewery Gulch Inn.
To discover why the pygmy’s trees were so short, Teresa decided to dig deep. Literally, she dug thousands of holes in the soil in order to find out what was going on in there and how it might be impacting the trees. However, she couldn’t get very far. About a foot and a half down, she consistently hit something solid. The soil in the pygmy is hardpan, which explains why she couldn’t dig into it. Hardpan is created when the ground is flat, so rather than soil moving and flowing over years with storms and wind, it stays put and consolidates, becoming concrete-like.