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San Vicente Redwoods

San Vicente Redwoods
CEMEX Redwoods, Lonestar Timberlands
Map showing the location of San Vicente Redwoods
Map showing the location of San Vicente Redwoods
Location of the San Vicente Redwoods in California
Location Davenport, CA
Nearest city Santa Cruz, California
Coordinates 37°01′05″N 122°11′50″W / 37.018056°N 122.197222°W / 37.018056; -122.197222Coordinates: 37°01′05″N 122°11′50″W / 37.018056°N 122.197222°W / 37.018056; -122.197222
Area 8,500 acres (34 km2)
Governing body private

San Vicente Redwoods is an emerging 8,500 acres (34 km2) mixed-use open space in Davenport, California. It is the largest privately owned parcel in Santa Cruz County and one of the largest in California.

Since 2011 the land has been owned and managed by the Living Landscape Initiative, a consortium of local and national conservation groups, including the Peninsula Open Space Trust, the Land Trust of Santa Cruz County, The Nature Conservancy, the Save the Redwoods League and the Sempervirens Fund. The $30 million purchase from Cemex was supported in part by the Packard and Moore Foundations. The new name of the park stems from the San Vicente Creek which flows through the main portion of the park. A small exclave of the parcel straddles Laguna Creek to the East.

The San Vicente Redwoods land is home to several species of wild animals threatened by the destruction of old-growth forest in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Native animals of particular interest include the California red-legged frog, a federally listed threatened species, and the endangered Marbled murrelet. The endangered Mount Hermon June beetle and Zayante band-winged grasshopper are both endemic to this area. The Santa Cruz Puma Project uses the area for research on North American cougar.

Laguna and San Vicente Creeks provide domestic water to Santa Cruz and Davenport, respectively.

The land has more than 70 miles (110 km) of gravel roads built by previous owners. It is adjacent to Big Basin Redwoods State Park, the Fall Creek unit of Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, both managed by the California Department of Parks and Recreation, and the Coast Dairies parcel owned by the Bureau of Land Management. The Laguna parcel is adjacent to the Bonny Doon Ecological Reserve.


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