Año Nuevo State Reserve is a California wildlife reserve located in San Mateo County.
Fifty-five miles (90 km) south of San Francisco and the Golden Gate, a low, rocky, windswept point juts out into the Pacific Ocean.
The reserve contains a diversity of plant communities, including old growth forest freshwater marsh, red alder riparian forest and knobcone pine forest. Its four perennial streams support steelhead and coho salmon, and its wetlands ...
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Año Nuevo State Reserve is a California wildlife reserve located in San Mateo County.
Fifty-five miles (90 km) south of San Francisco and the Golden Gate, a low, rocky, windswept point juts out into the Pacific Ocean.
The reserve contains a diversity of plant communities, including old growth forest freshwater marsh, red alder riparian forest and knobcone pine forest. Its four perennial streams support steelhead and coho salmon, and its wetlands are habitat to the rare San Francisco garter snake and California red-legged frog. Cultural resources include the remnants of a prehistoric Native American village site and a number of structures from the nineteenth century Cascade Ranch. In conjunction with adjacent and nearby public lands, the unit permits the protection of important regional ecological corridors.
Today, the point remains much as Sebastián Vizcaíno saw it from his passing ship in 1603—lonely, undeveloped, wild.
The Quroste Ohlone Native Americans were the first people known...
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