FSML-All Terrain Vehicles for Sedgwick Reserve

摘要 塞奇威克保护区（SR）有大约160公里的牧场道路， 穿越近400 垂直米许多道路无法通行， 、乘用汽车甚至4- 轮式驱动车辆，尤其是在多雨的冬季 个月保护区的许多地方全年都可以进入， 仅限于替代车辆，如全地形车 (ATV的）和步行交通。研究机会在 储备将大大提高亚视的 提供给研究人员。 目前卡车无法到达的大部分地区是 保护区东北角地形崎岖。 该地区的重要特征包括几个 菲格罗亚河和弗纳尔河的小溪流和支流 池.此外，还有陡峭的峡谷， 河岸植被包括弗里蒙特棉白杨（杨 fremontia）和干燥的山脊与灌木橡树（Quercus （berberberidifolia）查帕拉尔， 保护区没有亚视，这些社区不愿意 研究人员可以接触到，因此是最不为人所知的 保留区。这是一个丰富的调查领域， 保护区的一部分是这些栖息地的连通性， 河流和河岸地区的边界洛斯帕德雷斯 国家森林Figueroa山休闲区。关于ATV 访问，研究人员可以更容易地调查水源 河流进程和河岸生境走廊的利用， 野生动物.

ABSTRACT Sedgwick Reserve (SR) has about 160 km of ranch roads that traverse almost 400 vertical meters. Many of the roads are inaccessible to ,passenger cars and even 4- wheel drive vehicles, especially during the rainy winter months. Year-round access to many parts of the Reserve is limited to alternative vehicles, such as all-terrain-vehicles (ATV's), and foot traffic. Research opportunities at the Reserve would be significantly enhanced by having ATV's available to researchers. Much of the area currently inaccessible by truck is the topographically rugged northeastern corner of the Reserve. Ecologically significant features of the area include several small streams and tributaries of Figueroa Creek and vernal pools. Additionally there are steep canyons with dense riparian vegetation including Fremont cottonwood (Populus fremontia) and dry ridges with scrub oak (Quercus berberidifolia) chaparral which occur no where else on the Reserve. These communities are not, without ATV's, readily accessible to researchers and consequently are the least known areas of the Reserve. A fertile area of investigation in this part of the Reserve is the habitat connectivity of these streams and riparian areas to the bordering Los Padres National Forest Figueroa Mountain Recreation Area. With ATV access, researchers could more easily investigate headwater stream processes and the use of riparian habitat corridors by wildlife.