Research Opportunities

Wildlife Heritage Foundation would like to encourage biological research on our properties. We have many properties spanning several ecosystems and sensitive species throughout California. Contact our Senior Staff Biologist Gaylene Tupen to talk about research opportunities.

California Ecosystems

Mixed Hardwood
Oak Woodland
Chaparral- Knob cone Pine Woodland
Desert Dry Wash Microphyll Woodland
Coyote Scrub
Diegan Coastal Sage Scrub
Laurel Sumac Scrub
Mojave Scrub
Grasslands
Seasonal Floodplain
Riparian
- Created and natural wetlands
- Freshwater Marsh
- Tidal Wetlands
Vernal Pools: natural and created
Alkali Sink
Desert Dry Wash
Vegetated Desert Swale
Agricultural Land

Sensitive and Rare Species

San Joaquin Kit Fox
Burrowing Owl
Ferruginous Hawk
Loggerhead Shrike
Swainson’s Hawk
Sandhill Crane
Tri-colored Blackbird
Alameda Whipsnake
Giant Garter Snake
San Francisco Garter Snake
Desert Tortoise
Western Pond Turtle
Western Spadefoot
California Red-legged Frog
California Tiger Salamander
Foothill Yellow-legged Frog
California Coastal Coho Salmon
Delta Smelt
Valley Elderberry Longhorn Beetle
Conservancy Fairy Shrimp
Mid-Valley Fairy Shrimp
Vernal Pool Tadpole Shrimp
Vernal Pool Fairy Shrimp
Alkali Milk-vetch
Barstow Wooly Sunflower
Boggs Lake Hedge-hyssop
Butte County Golden Clover
Butte County Meadowfoam
Congdon’s Tarplant
Contra Costa Goldfields
Crownscale (check Goldfields preserve for complete species name)
Dwarf Downingia
Four Angled Spikerush
Hog Wallow Starfish
Legenere
Pappose Tarplant
Recurved Delphinium
Red Bluff Dwarf Rush
Tehama navarretia
Saline Clover
Slender Orcutt Grass
San Joaquin Spearscale
Woolly Meadowfoam