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Tejon Ranch Conservancy hosts a field trip for International Association of Vegetation Scientists
The Tejon Ranch Conservancy hosted an international group of vegetation scientists for a tour of the vegetation communities of Tejon Ranch. The group of 20 scientists from Austria, Australia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Germany, New Zealand, Japan, and Switzerland were participating in a week-long tour of Southern California (organized by Andiamo Tour Mexico) prior to the International Association of Vegetation Scientists (IAVS) meetings in Ensenada, which included a visit to Tejon Ranch. Tejon Ranch was a perfect setting for these scientists to experience California’s world-renowned floristic diversity, and to see first-hand the convergence of ecological regions that is a hall-mark of Tejon Ranch. The group was able to see mixed hardwood-pine forests along Blue Ridge, Joshua tree woodlands and Mojavean scrub habitats at the mouth of Canyon del Gato Montes, spectacular wildflower fields and native grasslands in Antelope Canyon, sycamore alluvial riparian woodlands in Big Sycamore Canyon, and blue oak and Valley oak woodlands in Los Alamos Canyon. We greatly enjoyed sharing Tejon Ranch with the IAVS group and hope that their visit was memorable!
