Santa Clara County

WHF maintains 1 preserve within Santa Clara County.

Mesa Ridge

Santa Clara County is a county located in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. It is the primary site of Silicon Valley.

After two centuries of an agricultural economy started by the Spanish missionaries, the focus has shifted to technology. This trend is not new. Hewlett Packard was founded in 1939, and Fairchild Semiconductor along with other early innovators were located in the county by the late 1950s. The term "Silicon Valley" was itself coined in 1971. The trend accelerated in the 1980s and 1990s, and agriculture has been nearly eliminated from the northern part of the county. Today, Santa Clara County is the headquarters for such companies as Apple Computer, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard, Quest, Intel, Google, Yahoo, and many others. The county is the main area of the Silicon Valley, which includes several other counties both north and south of Santa Clara.

Mesa Ridge

California Tiger Salamander Preserve

Acreage: 19.2ac

More information about this preserve coming soon.

Habitats Found Within this Preserve

Wetlands

Grasslands

Species Found Within this Preserve

California Tiger Salamander