Name that Berkeley Research Field Station!

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Name that Berkeley Research Field Station!

We're all looking forward to returning to a bustling, vibrant, UC Berkeley campus when the order to shelter in place is lifted. For many Berkeley researchers, getting back to work means getting out into the field. Berkeley manages several natural research field stations for use by our talented faculty. Try your luck at answering questions about ten Berkeley research stations and forests. The faculty, staff, or student who submits the most correct answers will get their name published in an upcoming issue of Berkeley at Home!

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The Chickering American River Reserve is located on 16,875 acres in Placer County southeast of Donner Pass. Research access is limited by:

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A lack of facilities

Average snowfall of more than 300 inches annually.

A single track dirt access road more than ten miles long.

All of the above.

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This 2,500 acre Hastings Natural History Reservation is located in which California county?

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Alpine County

Lassen County

Monterey County

San Luis Obispo County

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This field station is located north of the Golden Gate Bridge.

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Muir Woods Field Station

Point Reyes Field Station

Stinson Beach Field Station

Inverness Field Station

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This 7,600 acre Angelo Coast Range Reserve sits in Mendocino County and protects a section of the Eel River. Which animal is not an inhabitant of the Reserve?

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Black Bears

Golden Bears

Flying Squirrels

Spotted Owls

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The 80-acre Baker Forest in Plumas County is adjacent to which organization camp?

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U.C. Forestry Camp

Cal Alumni Association's Lair of the Golden Bear camp

UCLA Alumni Association's Bruinwoods Camp

Stanford Alumni Association's High Sierra Camp

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The Grouse Ridge Forest lies on 1,459 acres an hour east of Nevada City, and was acquired in 2016 in an agreement with:

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The Federal Bureau of Land Management

The U.S. Forest Service

The Grouse Family Foundation

Pacific Gas & Electric

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Not far from the UC Berkeley campus, the Russell Research Station lies on 284 acres:

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between the cities of Lafayette and San Pablo

on the eastern slope of Mission Peak above Fremont

in western San Mateo county overlooking Half Moon Bay

on Mt. Tamalpais overlooking the Pacific Ocean

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The 320 acre Whitaker's Forest has more than 200 large giant sequoia trees and is adjacent to this National Park.

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Yosemite National Park

King's Canyon National Park

Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Park

Lassen National Park

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The Sagehen Creek Field Station is located on 9,000 acres north of Truckee and its lowest point is:

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The second lowest point in California after Badwater in Death Valley National Park.

Lower than the Space Sciences Laboratory on the Berkeley campus

Higher than Denver, CO

Higher than Donner Pass

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The Richard B. Gump Field Station is one of the world's leading biodiversity natural research facilities and is located:

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in La Jolla, California, just north of UC San Diego

on the Channel Islands off the coast of Santa Barbara (and visible from the UCSB campus!)

on the leeward side of Moloka'i in the Hawaiian Islands

on the Island of Moorea in French Polynesia

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