FSML: Research and Facilities Planning for Sedgwick Reserve

加州大学的自然保护区系统（NRS）在全州范围内为此类研究提供了多种多样的地点。 塞奇威克保护区（SR），自1993年以来由加州大学圣巴巴拉分校（UCSB）自然保护区系统管理，位于加州中部沿海的圣伊内斯山谷，是NRS的最新成员，SR是加州大学和其他大学校园的科学家和教育工作者在全州和全国研究生态学的场所，进化生物学、地理学、土壤学、地质学、农业科学、人类学和自然历史。 由于其最近的历史作为一个工作养牛场和农场，SR提供了独特的机会，研究自然和农业和牧场生态系统之间的相互作用。 随着其最近被纳入NRS和全职，现场董事的雇用，塞奇威克储备准备发展其科学，教育和公共服务的使命。 SR位于圣巴巴拉市以北35英里处，UCSB校园位于Santa Ynez Valley。2050公顷的保护区评估了各种各样的植物群落，包括沿海鼠尾草灌木丛、蓝橡树林地、山谷橡树稀树草原、海岸活橡树林、蛇形查帕拉尔、蛇形草地、山麓松树林地、杨柳河岸林、春季水池、渗漏和泉水。 UCSB教职员工正在进行全面的规划工作，以发展SR的科学，教育，管理和公共服务任务。 当充分发展，SR将满足跨学科的研究和教学领域的科学，关键和敏感的栖息地的保护，以及环境教育和推广公众的需求。 为了进一步推进这一研究、教育、管理和社区服务的多重使命，该项目将支持一个研讨会，为SR制定一个长期研究计划。该项目的成果将是未来10年的长期科学研究计划

The University of California's Natural Reserve System (NRS) provides a diversity of sites throughout the state for such research. Sedgwick Reserve (SR), administered by the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) Natural Reserve System since 1993 and located in the Santa Ynez Valley of central coastal California, is the most recent addition to the NRS, SR serves as a site for scientists and educators from the University of California and other university campuses throughout the state and country to study ecology, evolutionary biology, geography, soil science, geology, agricultural science, anthropology and natural history. Because of its recent history as a working cattle ranch and farm, SR offers unique opportunities for studying interactions between natural and agricultural and rangeland ecosystems. With its recent inclusion in the NRS and the hiring of full-time, on-site directors, Sedgwick Reserve is poised to develop its scientific, education and public service missions. SR is located 35 miles north of the city of Santa Barbara and the UCSB campus in the Santa Ynez Valley. The 2050 ha reserve encompassess an extremely wide variety of plant communities including coastal sage scrub, blue oak woodland, valley oak savanna, coast live oak forest, serpentine chaparral, serpentine grassland, foothill pine woodland, willow riparian forest, vernal pools, seeps and springs. A comprehensive planning effort by UCSB faculty and staff is underway to develop SR's scientific, education, stewardship and public service missions. When fully developed, SR will fulfill the needs of interdisciplinary research and instruction in the field sciences, of preservation of critical and sensitive habitats, and of environmental education and outreach for the general public. To further this multiple mission of research, education, stewardship and community service, this project will support a workshop to develop a long-range research plan for SR. The product of th e project will be a long-range scientific research plan for the next 10 years