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Introduction

This virtual tour will let you navigate the Tejon Ranch and see for yourself why this magnificent landscape has served as a natural laboratory for scientists studying natural history, biogeography, and the processes of evolution. Because of the Ranch's unique location, historic field studies here in the late 1850's significantly advanced scientific knowledge about the plants and animals of the West, and ongoing research in this region continues to further our knowledge of how species and habitats evolve, function and interact.

The Tejon Ranch lies at the boigeographic crossroads of five geomorphic provinces and four floristic regions, all within the global hotspot recognized by scientists as the California Floristic Province. Within this hotspot, the 270,000-acre Tejon Ranch supports 23 different vegetation communities (60% of the communities in the region), Critical Habitat for the endangered California condor, and potential habitat for 20 state and federally listed species and 61 other rare and endemic species, all within about 40 miles of the largest population center of California. Tejon Ranch provides a unique opportunity to conserve low-elevation grasslands and oak woodlands that are under-protected in the region. Significant conservation on the Ranch is also crucial to ensuring that existing conservation investments remain intact and to linking the Sequoia National Forest with the Los Padres National Forest.

Threats to this important landscape are enormous. Three major development projects are partially completed or planned for the Ranch in the near future:

  • The approved Tejon Industrial complex will destroy 1,100 acres of farmland and grasslands and lies within a potentially crucial wildlife linkage along the Kern County Valley floor.
  • The proposed Centennial project along Highway 138 in North Los Angeles County will replace over 12,000 acres of grasslands, juniper woodlands, oak woodlands, chaparral and scrublands with approximately 25,000 homes and associated retail and commercial uses.
  • The proposed Tejon Mountain Village, located in the secluded hills and canyons area surrounding Tejon Lake, will impact approximately 37,000 acres of oak woodlands, grasslands, chaparral and scrublands, montane hardwoods and conifers, pinyon-juniper woodlands, wet meadows and riparian woodlands.

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