Blue oak (Quercus douglasii), gray pine (Pinus sabiniana) and buckeye (Aesculus californica) are three species that thrive in rugged local foothill woodland and chaparral habitat. Today and in the ...

You may have noticed that blue oaks are turning brown in the foothills right now. They aren’t dying — they are utilizing an adaptive strategy that they have evolved over time to thrive in their ...

All Discover Diablo hikes are subject to, and will honor, all applicable COVID-19-related restrictions in place for our area. The blue oak woodlands on the north side of Shell Ridge provides a ...

The Green Initiative Fund, or UC Berkeley’s Campus Green Fund, awarded $5,000 to the Oak Woodland Restoration Project at UC Berkeley’s Hastings Natural History Reservation, or Hastings, last fall. The ...

Blue oak woodland is an endemic natural community in the Central Valley region of California. It is dominated by blue oak (Quercus douglasii Hook. & Arn.) and has an understory of annual grasses and ...