Other Examples of California Pygmy Forests
- Hood Mountain — near Santa Rosa in Sonoma County. A pygmy cypress forest dominated by Sargent's Cypress (Cupressus sargentii) and Arctostaphylos species can be found on the northwest slopes.
- San Geronimo Ridge — just south of Whites Hill in Marin County.
- Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park — select pygmy forest locales.
- Cuesta Ridge pygmy cypress groves — in the southern Santa Lucia Mountains in San Luis Obispo County.
- Cuesta Ridge Botanical Special Interest Area — protects a Dwarf Sargent Cypress (Cupressus sargentii) pygmy cypress forest, operated by the Los Padres National Forest. Signed nature trails through the grove on the ridge.
- Dwarf Cupressus Preserve — managed by the Land Conservancy of San Luis Obispo County, another grove of the Cuesta pygmy cypress forest, on West Cuesta Ridge.
- El Moro Elfin Forest — 90 acres preserve of 'pygmy oaks' (Coast live oak (Quercus agrifolia ). Located on the southeastern shore of Estero Bay (Morro Bay system) in Los Osos, in coastal San Luis Obispo County. An oval wooden walkway loops around the forest, with viewing platforms.
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