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staff to collect local seeds and grow its own plants on site. The program continues to
expand each year and produces thousands of trees, shrubs, and grasses to be used for
projects within the park.
Grazing Program
State Parks established a grazing program on a portion of Hollister Hills SVRA to enhance
and restore native grasslands and oak woodland habitat. This grazing management plan is
designed to help guide State Parks and
its lessee in their grazing management
actions so that State Parks meets
its resource conservation goals. The
Hollister Hills SVRA grazing area is
approximately 1,155 acres of rangeland
and is divided into 25 pastures,
ranging in size from nine acres to 119
acres. In 1994, State Parks initiated a
pilot program at Hollister Hills SVRA
to evaluate the suitability of livestock grazing as a grassland management tool. Stock
operations typically have a shorter grazing season (approximately late fall to late spring or
less) than cow-calf operations, which are frequently year-round in coastal California. The
absence of livestock during dry summer months may reduce livestock impacts on sensitive
riparian areas.
Hungry Valley SVRA
Hungry Valley SVRA is within an hour’s drive from Los Angeles, and is adjacent to the
heavily traveled Interstate 5 on the Tejon Pass. The SVRA is located in the intersection
of three Southern California mountain ranges—the Transverse, Tehachapi, and Coastal
ranges. The park is bordered on the north by Tejon Ranch, on the west by Los Padres
National Forest, on the east by the CDWR aqueduct, and on the south by the Angeles
National Forest. Hungry Valley SVRA contains four distinct geographic regions. The first
is Hungry Valley proper, a large valley in the western portion of the park. The second is
Freeman Canyon, a badland-type environment (an area characterized by extensive natural
erosion) in the middle of the park. The third is the Gorman Creek drainage along the
north and east sides of the park. The fourth is Canada de Los Alamos, a large, relatively
flat plane in the southern portion of the park with a deep canyon cutting through the area
supporting riparian vegetation.
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