Publisher’s Circle hike at Rockville Trails

by
May 13, 2013

Here are selected photos from the Bay Nature Publisher’s Circle hike at Rockville Trails with Solano Land Trust on the sunny day of May 11, 2013. Our hike of approximately five miles through quintessential inner coast range oak woodlands and grasslands afforded us expansive views of the surrounding hills and valleys. [Photos by David Loeb, Joan Hamilton, and Carrie Adams]

Local botanic expert Bert Johnson helped us distinguish between a coast live Oak, a blue oak, and oracle oaks.
Local botanic expert Bert Johnson helped us distinguish between interior live oaks, coast live oaks, blue oaks, and valley oaks, and then to get confused by all the promiscuity occurring among them.
8729277405_419933f911
Much of the property consisted of grasslands that were once used for grazing.

 

RockvilleTrails-group
Lead docent James Chang described aspects of the trail to us while we enjoyed the shade of an oak tree.
RockvilleTrails-view
Developers once planned to flatten the hills and fill in the valleys to build homes here, but now Solano Land Trust is preserving the land in perpetuity.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About the Author

Read This Next

When Plants Cry

April 16, 2024
Magazine

There’s a New Blue Flitting on Xerces’ Old Turf

April 15, 2024
Baynature.org

Hiking For Who You Want to See in Nature

April 9, 2024
Magazine

Snake Fungal Disease Is Spreading in California. What Can We Do?

April 4, 2024
Baynature.org