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Resident animal species include:

MAMMALS Mountain lion, coyote, gray fox, bobcat, mule deer, spotted skunk, ringtail, brush rabbit, California ground squirrel, Santa Cruz kangaroo rat, desert woodrat, California mice, deer mice, brush mice, Merriam’s chipmunk, pallid bat, and Brazilian free-tailed bat.

BIRDS Turkey vulture, golden eagle, red-tailed hawk, Cooper’s hawk, sharp-shinned hawk, California quail, mountain quail, Anna’s hummingbird, wrentit, California thrasher, rufous-sided and California towhee, blue-gray gnatcatcher, Bewick’s wren, bushtit, black swifts, white-throated swifts, and barn, violet-green, and cliff swallows.

REPTILES Western fence lizard, sagebrush lizard, western whiptail, coast horned lizard, garter snake, gopher snake, striped racer, western rattlesnake, and common kingsnake.

Coast redwoods show signs of vigorous regrowth after the 1999 Kirk Complex Fires in the narrow ravines of Hare Creek Canyon.

Redwood Forests

California is blessed with Earth’s largest, oldest, and tallest living organisms. The largest tree in volume, the giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum), lords over the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada. The world’s oldest tree, the bristlecone pine (Pinus aristata), perches along the flanks of the White Mountains. The tallest living organism, the coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens), grows along the California coast, making its southern home in the Santa Lucia Range.