Photo Essay For Bio Class.

1. Conifer

2. Incense Cedar
• Incense grows around
2,000-7,000 feet
• Needles are small and flat
• 50-150 feet in height
• 2-7 feet in diameter

3. Jeffrey Pine
• 82- 130 feet tall
• Needles grow 4-9 inches
• Stretches from Southern Oregon
to Baja Mexico, but found mostly
in Sierra Nevadas.

4. Valley
Grassland

6. California ground squirrel
It is gray and light brown
Body head to toe is about a foot and tail adds on 6 more inches
Like to burrow underground

7. Shadscale Scrub

8. Sage Brush
Also known as Artemisia tridentata.
Usually 2-5 feet tall
Strong smell when wet

10. Alkali salt brush
Found near Bakersfield, CA
Foliage color is silver
Live in extreme drought

11. Leonotis
nepetifolia
Found these near shrub
outside of Huron, Ca
It lives in high alkaline soil
Can go with out water for
weeks

12. Riparian

13. Mallard
One of the most easily recognized ducks
Feeds on seed and tubers of plants
Grows to be about 2.5 pounds