Ancient Oaks at Russian Ridge, 5/2/18 by Ronald Horii
Russian Ridge Open Space Preserve is famous for its spring wildflowers, but it also is noted for its grove of huge, centuries-old canyon live oak trees. They are along the Ancient Oaks Trail. Here are pictures of some of the oaks.

Here are my pictures of Russian Ridge from 2005:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1327505250606327.1073742162.100000405933924&type=1&l=b72ca9c06b

Canyon live oaks: http://calscape.org/Quercus-chrysolepis-(Canyon-Live-Oak)?srchcr=sc561a35f94414c

More info about Russian Ridge:
https://openspace.org/preserves/russian-ridge

Here's an article about the ancient oaks at Russian Ridge:
https://baynature.org/article/a-midpeninsula-open-space-for-the-ages-among-the-ancient-oaks-on-russian-ridge/ 
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Barbara Heinsch
Beautiful oaks and photos!
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