Oaks ‘n Folks – Volume 18, Issue 12 – July, 2002 In California, increased residential development has resulted in conversion of oak woodlands to houses, roads, and recreational areas. The majority of oak woodlands in California’s North Coast are privately
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Rural Residential Development and Breeding Birds
Oaks ‘n’ Folks – Volume 18, Issue 1 – February 2002 Effects of Rural Residential Development on the Breeding Birds of Placer County’s Foothill Oak Woodlands Placer County, which spans from the Central Valley to the crest of the Sierra
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Oaks ‘n’ Folks – Volume 16, Issue 2 – August 2000 In the late Pleistocene, California was home to a diverse suite of large vertebrates, including digging and rooting animals like the peccary and grizzly bear. These two species, along with
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Oaks ‘n Folks – Volume 15, Issue 1 – March 2000 No species is more intimately associated with oaks than the acorn woodpecker, a common resident of oak woodlands throughout California. Acorn woodpeckers eat acorns directly off trees in the
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A Collaborative Venture by California Partners in Flight Oaks ‘n’ Folks – Volume 12, Issue 2 – September, 1997 For most Californians, oak woodlands and their wildlife are a familiar and emblematic natural setting. Looking over rolling foothills of oaks
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Oaks ‘n” Folks – Volume 14, Issue 2 – August, 1999 California’s expanding human development is causing extensive habitat fragmentation and an expanded urban-wildland interface that threaten wildlife conservation. Undisturbed areas become islands of habitat surrounded by development, and habitat
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Oaks ‘n Folks – Volume 14, Issue 1 – March, 1999 Residential development is expanding in California, resulting in a larger number of houses and roads in wooded areas. This increased demand for property in rural areas has resulted in
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Oaks ‘n’ Folks – Volume 12, Issue 2 – September, 1997 Red-tailed hawks are a common resident of much of California’s oak woodlands.Large, powerful raptors, red-tailed hawks are a member of a group of birds called Buteos, sometimes called “buzzard
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Oaks ‘n’ Folks – Volume 12, Issue 1 – February, 1997 Livestock have been grazing oak woodland habitat since the Spanish introduced them in the sixteenth century. Today, more than 80% of California oak woodlands are grazed by livestock. Though
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Oaks ‘n’ Folks – Volume 11, Issue 1 – June, 1996 Oak woodlands provide habitat for California’s most diverse array of terrestrial wildlife. At least 331 vertebrate species utilize these habitats, including 160 species of birds. We can now expand
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