Just 45 minutes from the UC Davis campus, the Quail Ridge Reserve protects over 2,500 acres of Coast Range habitat for research, teaching and outreach. A hilltop field station provides a scenic base for classes, meetings and meals, and diverse overnight housing options are available to academic users.
Located on a precipitous peninsula in one of the driest parts of the northern Coast Ranges, the Quail Ridge Reserve projects into Lake Berryessa and provides outstanding remnants of native grassland, savanna, and oak woodland habitats, extensive chaparral, and several small ponds. The reserve has become an innovative resource for cross-disciplinary research and instruction, including studies on wireless networks and automated animal tracking.
The 2020 LNU Lightning Complex fire burned the entire understory of the reserve. Fire intensity varied across the landscape and different habitats, resulting in a suite of regeneration timelines.The reserve is a unique partnership between the University and the Bureau of Land Management, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the Bureau of Reclamation, and the Land Trust of Napa County.
- Year Founded
- 2000
- Year Joined OBFS
- 2023
- Size of Field Station (hectares)
- 1001-2500
- FSML Web Address
- https://naturalreserves.ucdavis.edu/quail-ridge-reserve
- Private nonprofit organization?
- No
- Universities affiliated / Parent Organization
- University of California, Davis
- Federal, state, or local governmental partners?
-
Other: USDI BLM, BOR, CDFW
- Member of the Virtual Field
- No