Flat land, dry grasses and herds of antelopes have always attracted visitors to this park which has a unique grassland ecosystem.

In addition to loss due to urbanization, the entire grassland ecosystem where they once thrived no longer exists in the same form.

Without herbivores grazing and trampling over the land, mosses, shrubs, and trees were able to take over and replace the grassland ecosystem.

Productivity and sustainability influenced by biodiversity in grassland ecosystems.

Grazing sometimes reduces, but sometimes increases biodiversity of grassland ecosystems.

This plant grows on mountaintops and scablands in sagebrush, shrubsteppe, and grassland habitat.

The flora of the upper watershed consists of scattered oak and madrone woodlands that are intermingled with grassland habitat, in some areas forming a savanna.

This plant grows in many types of shrubland and grassland habitat, as well as in some cultivated areas.

This grass grows in chaparral and grassland habitat.

It grows in chaparral and vernally wet grassland habitat.