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A description aDdinterpretation prepared by HANS JENNY Professor Emeritus University of California February 1973 The PYG~IY FOREST ECOLOGICAL STAIRCASE
Summary of proposal A sequence of five elevated marine terraces along Jug Handle Creek in coastal Mendocino County constitues a nationally and internationally famous ecological staircase. So outstanding is the combination of canyons, terraces and ancient dunes, tall redwoods and firs, bishop pine forest and dwarfed pines and cypresses that the upper terraces already have been declared in 1969 a Registered National Landmark by the Department of Interior, Washington, D.C. As urged by many people, it is proposed to extend this protected area in Jackson State Forest as a narrow strip of land clear to the sea cliff and therehy preserve a natural landscape segment that is ecologically unique not only along the entire California coast but in all of North America and Europe put together. The Staircase is deserving the esteemed status uf a federal National Monument within the National Park System. Already it is beinp visited annually by some 2,000 nature-oriented people from all walks of life, young and old. The present Preserve ~omprises about 300 acres and some 600 acres would have to be purchased by the Federal Government from private owners. They are anxious to sell, hence action is urgent. The Staircase, declared a nature museum, will become an enduring tourist attraction of naticnal scope.
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Page 6 and 7: Introduction Along the coast of nor
Page 8 and 9: Size The Staircase follows Jug Hand
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Page 12 and 13: as well as its extention into the c
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Page 18 and 19: Fig. 4 Wave action near mouth of Ju
Page 20 and 21: common origin: the Graywacke sandst
Page 22 and 23: logging and agriculture had barely
Page 24 and 25: ) Ecosystem genesis on dunes When a
Page 26 and 27: Fig. 8 Old, highly weathered dune (
Page 28 and 29: As podsolization advances, the regi
Page 30 and 31: Fig. 10 Cane-like pygmy cypress wit
Page 32 and 33: Fig. 12 Left (check): barley seedli
Page 34 and 35: Fig. 14 Pyf!J!fYforest during rainy
Page 36 and 37: Fig. 16 Lushious vegetation in bott
Page 38 and 39: soil profile in his Arbor Day, and
Page 40 and 41: (13) Odum, E. P., 1972. Fundamental
Page 42 and 43: Species List of Pyf!JJlYForest incl
Page 44 and 45: Variations in depth to hardpan with
Page 46: podsolization (p. 14), the process

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