| BIRDS: MAMMALS PLANTS General Plant List Both
California native plants and non-natives.
A closer look at these native plants: |
A major objective of the
Preserve is to improve habitat for local
wildlife. The riparian forest that once lined the river is now
smaller in width, but even so it still provides habitat for many
species of local and migratory birds, mammals such as coyotes.
cottontail rabbits and bobcats, insects, spiders, and reptiles.
Frogs, fish and beaver still live in or near the river (which generally
has water unlike sections of the Kern farther to the west).
Our revegetation project
aims to replenish the forest with new plantings of California native
plants such as willows,
cottonwoods, California sycamores, and oaks. We are also planting
elderberry bushes, buttonwillow, California native roses, bladderpod
and other native California plants, all of which provide food, roosting
or hiding places, nesting materials, or shade. Plantings
are done from seed or cuttings taken from the Preserve and propagated
by Andy Honig.The native Yowlumne Yokuts of this area depended on these same resources; a future project will be to add information to this website on Yokuts' use of the natural wealth of what is now the Panorama Vista Preserve. |