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Title: California fish and game
Identifier: californiafishga72_3cali (find matches)
Year: [1] (s)
Authors: California. Dept. of Fish and Game; California. Fish and Game Commission; California. Division of Fish and Game
Subjects: Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons
Publisher: (San Francisco, etc. ) State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game
Contributing Library: California Department of Fish and Game
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154 CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME The Park is located 65 km east of San Diego and 40 km north of Mexico in the Cuyamaca Mountains of California's Peninsular Range. Annual precipitation averages 88 cm; most precipitation occurs between No- vember and April. Snowfall averages 92 cm per year. December-March is the period of greatest snowfall. Snow does not accumulate but usually melts within several weeks. The mean annual temperature is 12° C; while summer maxima seldom exceed 38° C and winter minima rarely fall below â10° C. The hottest period is June- September and the coldest December-March. Monthly variation in temperature during the study approximated the 50-year mean. Prevailing winds are from the southwest, but Santa Ana winds (extremely hot, dry winds originating in the Great Basin) come from the northeast. Santa Ana conditions are most prevalent from September through early December, but may occur in any month. Flora and Fauna East Mesa was dominated by upland meadows (619 ha) interspersed with stands of oak (149 ha) orpine (241 ha) and surrounded by old-growth chapar- ral (241 ha) (Figure 1). Percent cover for species typifying the chaparral com- munity was Quercus wislizenii (17.8%), Cercocarpus betuloldes (17.3%), Adenstoma fasciculatum (11.2%), Ceanothus palmeri (2.9%), Eriogonum fas- ciculatum (2.9%), Rhamnus crocea (1.8%), and Salvia apiana (1.7%) (see Methods for sampling details). *â¢â lOOO 4ooo ^^^:'mm'mm LEGEND r73 CHEAT &R*SS (13 DEER GRASS C3 WILD CAT ED nuSTARD UZ3 ROSE V71 BUCKWHEAT liU CHOHE CHERW 123 OAK ^^ PINt LJ CHAPARRAL
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FIGURE 1. Vegetative types of East Mesa, Cuyamaca Rancho State Park, San Diego County, California, 1977-1979.

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