Reserves

Information UC Irvine administers three NRS reserves: Burns Piñon Ridge Reserve (BPR), San Joaquin Marsh Reserve (SJM), and Steele/Burnand Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center (SBAB). The UCI NRS Campus office sits directly alongside SJM, and the history of the NRS at UCI is inectricable from the history of the marsh. Irvine was one of the first fully planned cities, and SJM… Read more…

Information The UCLA Herbarium features the Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden named for its long-time former director and one of the most important figures in the early history of the NRS. The site houses several collections of note including Mathias’ papers and photograph collections. UCLA is the home campus for two NRS reserves, Stunt Ranch… Read more…

Information The UC Riverside (UCR) campus NRS office administers the Box Springs Reserve (BSR), Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center (BDC), Emerson Oaks Reserve (EOR), Motte Rimrock Reserve (MRR), James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve (JSJ), and Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center (SGM). Previously it administered Etiwanda Wash Reserve, which has since been sold out of the NRS… Read more…

Information UC San Diego administers four NRS reserves: Dawson Los Monos Canyon Reserve (DLMC), Elliott Chaparral Reserve (ECR), Kendall-Frost Mission Bay Marsh Reserve (KFMB), and Scripps Coastal Reserve (SCR). The NRS campus office administers all the UCSD reserves directly, except for SCR which is partly operated in partnership with the Scripps Institute of Oceanography. The California Department of Fish… Read more…

Information One of the most active campuses in of the Natural Reserve System, UC Santa Barbara administers seven NRS reserves: Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve (CSM), Coal Oil Point Natural Reserve (COP), Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino Reserve (KNRM), Santa Cruz Island Reserve (SCI), Sedgwick Reserve, Valentine Eastern Sierra Reserve (VESR) – Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory (SNARL), and VESR – Valentine Camp (VC).  On-site… Read more…

Information UC Santa Cruz administers five reserves. The NRS campus office directly administers Fort Ord Natural Reserve (FON) and the UCSC Campus Natural Reserve (CNR), and the UCSC Institute of Marine Sciences’ Joseph M. Long Marine Laboratory administers Año Nuevo Island Reserve (ANI) and Younger Lagoon Reserve (YLR). The CNR is not part of the NRS, but… Read more…

Valentine Eastern Sierra Reserve (VESR) consists of two sites, the Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory (SNARL) and Valentine Camp, both located in Inyo County in the eastern Sierra Nevada Read more…

White Mountain Research Center (WMRC), located in the Owens Valley and White Mountains of Inyo County, includes four facilities: Cooked Creek Station, Barcroft Station, Owens Valley Laboratory, and the Summit Hut. Read more…