Santa Clara County

WHF maintains 1 preserve within Santa Clara County.

Mesa Ridge California Tiger Salamander Preserve

Santa Clara County is located in the southern San Francisco Bay Area. The county is boarded by San Mateo County on the west and extends to the middle portion of the Coast Range. It includes both Silicon Valley and the fertile Santa Clara Valley, a large region of orchards and vegetable crops.

Mesa Ridge

California Tiger Salamander Preserve

The seven-acre Mesa Ridge Preserve was created to protect summer habitat for the California tiger salamander (CTS). This species spends the summer in burrows and other areas where it is protected from the summer heat. The Mesa Ridge Preserve has numerous ground squirrel burrows in open grassland. A series of created mounds have become inhabited by ground squirrels and are now being monitored for the presence of CTS. In addition, wetlands occur along drainage channels on the margins of the Preserve. The Preserve is owned by Mesa Ridge 2004, Inc., and managed by WHF.

Habitats Found Within this Preserve

Wetlands

Grasslands

Species Found Within this Preserve

California Tiger Salamander