Described as a ‘botanical wonderland’, the rocky ridge is home to more than 30 species of rare plants and Indigenous village sites
olok Luyuk, a 11-mile rocky ridge just north of San Francisco, is a rare, idiosyncratic landscape. Purple and yellow wildflowers bloom against green and brown hillsides. Dark rock formations extend against lush cypress groves.
Left: The rocky ridge of Molok Luyuk and the Berryessa Snow Mountain national monument. Right: ‘It’s a botanical wonderland,’ said Nick Jensen, Conservation Program director and wildflower expert, of Molok Luyuck.Molok Luyuk means “condor ridge” in Patwin, and tribes in this region have always referred to the area that way.
Molok Luyuk is home to more than 30 species of rare plants as well as bald eagles, golden eagles and peregrine falcons.It’s a botanical wonderland, said Nick Jensen, conservation program director at the California Native Plant Society. “One of the things that makes this place special is the diversity of environmental conditions, the diversity of habitats,” he said. “You have oak woodland, right next to a patch of grassland underlaid with clay soils, right next to serpentine chaparral.
Left: The serpentine soil of Molok Luyuk is fertile ground for pink adobe lilies. Right: Serpentinite rock reflects the minerals that make up the clay soil.In 2015, Barack Obama designated Berryessa Snow Mountain, but only included a small portion of Molok Luyuk within its borders. Adding the rest of the ridge, the tribe and local environmentalists say, will ensure a protected wildlife corridor between Berryessa and the Mendocino national forest to the north.
Lawmakers reintroduced the legislation this year, as well. But nearly 10,000 acres of the ridge, however, were excluded from that legislation, after Colusa county supervisors asked those areas be left out of the monument.
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