A Sierra Club Naturalist's Guide to the Sierra Nevada |
Contents
Size and Extent of the Sierra | 13 |
The Sierra Foothills 19The Conifer Forest 19Yosemite Val | 27 |
Plate Tectonics | 40 |
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air temperatures alpine zone bark Basin birds brown brush burrows California canyon chaparral chipmunks Color common conifers cool coyotes crest crevices dense digger pine dominant downslope east slope elevation feet fire flowers foothill woodland forage genus giant sequoia glacial glaciers granite grasses grassland gray ground squirrel growing habitats herbs insects Jeffrey pine kilometers Lake Tahoe leaves litter lodgepole pine mammals meadows meters mixed coniferous forest moist moisture montane mountain mule deer Nest northern Sierra numerous occur pine forest pinyon plant communities Plate ponderosa pine predators range red fir red fir forest region riparian woodland rock rodents sagebrush sagebrush scrub season sedges seeds shrubs Sierra Nevada snow soil stands stems streams streamsides subalpine forest subalpine zone summer surface tail timberline trees understory upslope vegetation volcanic west slope western white fir whitebark pine wildflowers Willow wind winter Yosemite