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Traversing Swanton Road, 1st Ed., James A. West
Traversing Swanton Road, 1st Ed., James A. West
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Situated at the northwest end of Santa Cruz County and occupying circa 30 square miles of sharply contrasted terrain, the Scott Creek Watershed concentrates within its geomorphological boundaries, at least 10-12% of California's flora, both native and introduced. Paradoxically, the use/abuse that the watershed has sustained over the past 140+ years, has not necessarily diminished the biodiversity and perhaps parallels the naturally disruptive but biologically energizing processes (fire, flooding, landslides and erosion), which have also been historically documented for the area for +60 years. This is an early edition of an extensive document by James A. West. Please visit the …
A Journey Through The Scott Creek Watershed, James A. West
A Journey Through The Scott Creek Watershed, James A. West
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This PDF contains content captured from: West, James. A Journey Through the Scott Creek Watershed, https://swanton.ucscarboretum.org/index.html. Accessed 9 July 2020. The website was created for the University of California Santa Cruz Arboretum and Botanic Garden. It serves as the beginnings and provides a basic outline of the content within "Traversing Swanton Road," an essay by James A. West. A most recent version of the essay can be found at https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/spr_assocres/1/