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unusual facts about coastal sage scrub


Coastal sage scrub

Other endemic fauna includes: the El Segundo blue butterfly in the LAX dunes; and the Palos Verdes Blue butterfly (Glaucopsyche lygdamus palosverdesensis), at only one site on the Palos Verdes Peninsula.


Geography of Southern California

Elevations range from 500 ft to 11,500 ft (150 m to 3,500 m) and vegetation in these ranges varies from coastal sage scrub to chaparral, and from oak woodland to conifer forest.

Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences

The decision to establish Keck Graduate Institute as a seventh Claremont College met with some opposition, particularly from faculty of the other Claremont Colleges who objected to its lack of tenure, and environmentalists who opposed its plans to build a campus next to the Bernard Field Station, an area of undeveloped scrubland.


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